Opinion: 3 factors that will impact the growth of IoT in healthcare

Here comes the Internet of Things ( IoT). Again. A year ago, I wrote a column here arguing that the IoT movement isn't all that it's cracked up to be, primarily because being able to connect "things" doesn't make them an "Internet of Things." I thought it would be a good time to revisit my position in light of all the press that IoT has been getting lately. Gartner has estimated that some 6.4 Billion connected things will be in use by the end of 2016, with some 5.5 million new things getting connected every day. This is a significant increase on their earlier estimate of 4.9 Billion connected things for 2015.