The Internet of Things is a growing network of everyday objects from industrial machines to consumer goods that can share information and complete tasks while you are busy with other activities, like work, sleep, or exercise. Soon, our cars, our homes, our major appliances, and even our city streets will be connected to the Internet–creating this network of objects that is IoT for short. Made up of millions of sensors and devices that generate incessant streams of data, the IoT can be used to improve our lives and our businesses in many ways. For healthcare, any device that generates data about a person’s health and sends that data into the cloud will be part of this IoT. ACOs focus on managed care and want to keep people at home and out of the hospital. Sensors and wearable will collect health data on patients in their homes and push all of that data into the cloud. Electronic scales, BP monitors, SpO2 sensors, proximity sensors like beacon. Healthcare institutions and care managers, Big data Analytics tools, will monitor this massive data stream and the IoT to keep their patients healthy. And all of this disparate sensor data will come into healthcare organizations at an unprecedented volume and velocity. In a healthcare future predicated on keeping people out of the hospital, a health system’s ability to manage all this data will be crucial. These volumes of data are best managed as streams coming into a big data cluster. As the data streams in, organizations will need to be able to identify any potential health issues and alert a care manager to intervene.