More than 72,000 visitors convened last March to the COEX exhibition centre where KIMES is taking place every year. The 2015 edition saw 1145 companies showcasing their products over 38,350 square meters of exhibition space. Among exhibitors, the highest number unsurprisingly was from Korea, represented by 530 manufacturers, followed by China (137), the US (117), Germany (96) and Japan (67).
According to the post-show survey carried out by the organizers, a majority of exhibitors obtained positive results and fruitful contacts with qualified visitors at KIMES 2015. Most of them also reported that the medical market was continuing to grow in the Asia region. This is one of the main factors driving the expansion of Korea

False positives and negatives
Few doubt that healthcare today has improved because of such equipment. However, as the devices proliferated, another kind of risk has emerged. These monitoring devices operate independently, with no means to assimilate information from multiple sources and intelligently understand patient status. As a result, some devices can occasionally fail to issue an alarm (a false negative), while others do so wrongly (a false positive). On their part, healthcare staff members – whose numbers have shrunk as many of their tasks began to be handled by the devices – often tend to shut off what they believe are nuisance alarms.
Many are just that – nuisances. Some are not. In both cases of false positives and false negatives, human lives are often put at risk.

Nine of 10 healthcare IT departments ready for IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen to offer a way out of such challenges. IoT uses sensors, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) to capture or monitor data and automatically trigger certain events.
In times past, healthcare sensors covered devices such as vital signs monitors. Today, those monitors and much other hospital equipment is connected by the IoT