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Prioritise patient safety and wellbeing with IoT solutions that transform healthcare, with remote monitoring, smart hospitals and wearables.
Connectivity that puts patients at the heart of the solution.
In healthcare, a dropped connection costs more than a missed reading.
Every time a device goes offline, it's a delayed alert. A gap in a patient's monitoring history. A doctor making life and death decisions, without the full picture.
With multi-network coverage, dropped connections will no longer weigh heavily on your mind. By automatically connecting every device to the strongest available signal across all four UK networks, you can be certain the connection will hold when it matters the most.
IoT connectivity designed around your healthcare operations
Most IoT healthcare solutions aren't built to work outside the hospital grounds: ours is.
From missed readings to signal drops, not to mention unnecessary admin, the operational costs of unreliable connectivity can add up fast.
Learn how Cellhire's connectivity keeps every device online, keeping every patient and staff member safe and connected, which in turn reduces the cost of ownership, ensuring your healthcare operation can run smoothly and with efficiency.
Why choose Cellhire
- Trusted by the NHS and MedTech device manufacturers, backed by decades of enterprise IoT experience.
- 24/7 technical and account support from dedicated IoT specialists, built for devices that can't afford to stay offline.
- Free-trial SIM packs let you test coverage and reliability in your own settings before you commit.
- One SIM, four networks, with no single supplier to depend on, and no lock-in.
The real cost of connectivity
Many operators are paying the right price for the data they need, while quietly losing money on everything around it.
Every hour spent prepping, swapping and tracking SIMs is an hour not spent on patients or handling your operation. Our SIM management portal gives you and your team that time back.
Your patient data could be a target
Every reading your devices transmit should travel over a private network, not the open internet. Our options of private APN, IPSec VPN come as standard on every SIM, so your data is protected before a single device goes live.
One weak signal and a device goes offline
Your devices should never depend on a single network, especially in a patient's home. Our unsteered SIMs automatically connect to one of the 4 largest UK networks with the strongest signal, so monitoring stays online even when one network lets you down.
Weak signal kills batteries faster
A device struggling for signal uses up to 5 times more energy just to stay connected. With our SIMs, locking on to the strongest available signal instantly means batteries last significantly longer and unplanned home visits become rarer.
Consumer SIMs were not built for this
Your devices are used by patients and carers, not IT teams, often unsupervised for months at a time. Our SIMs are built for exactly that, reducing the risk of a missed reading and an unplanned home visit.
Where can Cellhire's IoT connectivity enhance healthcare?
IoT in healthcare is a sector that is growing substantially year on year. With the number of services, settings and benefits becoming clear. In healthcare, IoT shows up wherever a device needs to stay connected. Here's where IoT can benefit the healthcare industry:
Remote patient monitoring
Cellhire's multi-network SIMs connect blood pressure monitors, glucose monitors and other IoT healthcare devices in a patient's home or, really, no matter where they are, so readings reach clinical teams without gaps in coverage.
Telecare and digital alarm systems
Many extremely important safety features in the healthcare sector, such as pendant alarms, fall detectors and dispensing devices, have run on the analogue phone network. Devices need updating or run the risk of being switched off in the 2G & 3G switch-off. Cellhire's SIMS offer each and every device a reliable connection, especially when it needs it the most.
Community and care home teams
Many healthcare teams and professionals work across a range of units, hospitals or homes. For healthcare workers to stay connected wherever they are, an eSIM is essential.
Hospitals and care facilities
Hospitals and care facilities need to rely heavily on IoT to keep vital equipment and patients monitored. Cellhire will keep devices connected across every building, ward, basement, rooftop and communal area.
Ambulances and emergency care
Ambulances need to arrive on time, every time, this means a strong connection is vital. Multi-network SIMs keep telemetry and communications equipment connected across ambulances and emergency response fleets, no matter where they are, whether it's in the city or in more rural locations with limited signal.
Connected medical device manufacturers
When new healthcare products are designed and created, Cellhire's IoT SIMs and eSIMs can be built in, making reliable connectivity a built-in feature from day one. With eUICC technology, device profiles can be managed and updated remotely after the device ships. So, connectivity can be provisioned in production and adjusted throughout the device's life without ever swapping a physical SIM.
The importance of security in IoT for healthcare
Patient data is sensitive, and a poorly secured device is a way in for an attacker. In healthcare procurement, a security gap doesn't just risk a breach; it can rule a supplier out of NHS and public sector contracts entirely.
That's why Cellhire's connectivity is built to a higher standard. NHS and public-sector procurement frameworks require suppliers to evidence these standards before they can even be considered, so rather than treating compliance as a costly add-on, Cellhire meets the security and data-handling bar as standard, helping your deployment clear procurement without connectivity becoming the sticking point.
- ISO 27001: Certified information security management across our systems and processes.
Beyond certification, security is built into the connectivity itself. Every reading a device transmits can travel over a private network rather than the public internet, using private APNs, IPSec VPN tunnelling access as standard.
This keeps sensitive patient data isolated from end to end: from the device in a patient's home through to your clinical systems, reducing the attack surface before a single device goes live.
Preparing Healthcare Devices for the 2G & 3G Switch-Off
Many life-critical healthcare devices such as telecare pendants, fall detectors, medication dispensers and older monitoring equipment still rely on the analogue phone network and legacy 2G and 3G connections. As UK networks switch these off, any device left on them risks going silent. Within the healthcare sector, this could be devastating.
For healthcare providers, that turns a technology deadline into a patient-safety issue. Migrating these devices to modern, multi-network connectivity now removes that risk before it becomes an outage.
Cellhire's multi-network IoT SIMs future-proof healthcare devices against the switch-off, connecting each device across all four UK networks rather than a single ageing signal ensuring your equipment stays online through the transition and beyond.
Delve deeper with our guide on how to prepare for the 2G and 3G switch off.
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Built on client success
The covid-19 pandemic caused a national health crisis, along with a sudden and desperate need for vaccination centres across the UK. Discover how Cellhire ensured health care professionals could update vaccination records on-site, effectively manage vaccine stocks, and allow staff to effectively carry out their roles, across a wide range of locations. Many pop-up locations posed extra challenges, lacking a fixed-line solution due to the temporary nature of the centres.
Read the full NHS COVID vaccination centres case study.
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Getting started with Cellhire
Order a free trial.
Test coverage and reliability in your own setting before you commit.
Provision through the portal.
Activate and manage every SIM without manually switching networks.
Deploy and scale.
Roll out across your device estate, backed by 24/7 specialist support as you grow.
Frequently Asked Questions
IoT in healthcare refers to a network of connected medical devices, sensors and software that collect and share real-time health data, without the need for human intervention. You may see it referred to as IoMT (Internet of Medical Things).
Yes, absolutely. eSIMs work wherever you are, allowing you to switch networks and manage data plans without swapping physical SIMs. This allows healthcare professionals, care teams and any healthcare staff to work across multiple sites or patients’ homes without worry.
Yes, consumer mobile plans normally rely on a single network. This means a dead spot in a patient's home or a loss of signal in a remote area takes a device offline. If a device is offline, it's no longer monitoring the patient, meaning the picture of their health becomes unclear, and healthcare professionals end up working without all the facts. Cellhire's multi-network SIMs automatically switch across networks, connecting to the strongest possible option out of the UK's networks. So remote patient monitoring devices stay connected, no matter what.
A consistent signal means more reliability. IoT healthcare solutions built on unsteered, multi-network SIMs avoid the prospect of any single-carrier dead spots that can take a system offline.
Mobile broadband SIMs are built for consumer use, as a primary or failover connection. Healthcare IoT connectivity from Cellhire includes private APNs, VPN security, multi-network coverage and a dedicated SIM management portal. It's built for critical, always-on devices, not a single handset.
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