ABSTRACT
Poland has all the resources needed to develop telemedicine, i.e., technology and private capital ready for investment, and has patients waiting for new solutions. The benefits of using telemedicine solutions are obvious: savings resulting from the possibility of reducing investment; outlays on infrastructure; better use of working time of medical staff, and increase in service quality through faster diagnosis and monitoring of treatment. In Poland, the growth rate of private spending on health care is 6% per year, which is almost two times higher than public spending. Among the positives are the reductions in service costs resulting, among others, from reducing their number and shortening queues due to increased resource efficiency. The aim of this chapter is to assess the use of innovative technologies based on IoT in the healthcare system in Poland. In Poland, over 80% of patients have Internet access and 60% declare that they own a smartphone. The teleconsultation services reach 110% growth per year, which means that the number of teleconsultations has doubled during the last 12 months and amounted to over 110,000 in all of Central and Eastern Europe. Advanced technology used in health care can be a solution to the lack of budget money.
