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Technology is enabling hospitals to extend their reach and deliver care outside traditional setting.

Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), modern hospitals are increasingly distributed digital ecosystems where the boundaries of acute care extend into patients’ homes and their community.

In the December edition of LaingBuisson’s HealthcareMarkets, Candesic Managing Partner Dr Leonid Shapiro and Senior Associate Dr Campbell Foubister consider how IoT is becoming part of the clinical infrastructure, study the implications for investors, and look at the consolidation of fragmented devices into interoperable data layers which is enabling hospitals, virtual wards, and municipalities to operate on a single digital backbone.