CTO: No compelling IoT business case for healthcare yet

There are many health IT experts out there who believe that, because of the potential value the Internet of Things (IoT) can offer, healthcare organizations should definitely plan to implement IoT-based services. This viewpoint was abundantly clear during SearchHealthIT's inaugural #chatHIT tweet chat, in which participants expressed their strong beliefs that healthcare needs to adopt IoT and discussed the many benefits IoT provides to patients as well as doctors. But for others, a strong IoT business case in healthcare is missing, bumping it down low on the priority list. While Werder said that IoT in healthcare has relevancy, he questioned the financial benefits.