Transforming healthcare services with connected health innovation

Healthcare providers must find new ways to increase efficiency and quality of care. As an evolution of telehealth and telemedicine services, connected health is seeing new levels of capability being realized in areas such as user interfaces, storage, smartphones, low power connectivity, and data processing and analytics. When combined with medical sector advances around novel sensing and imaging technologies, as well as microfluidics, haptic feedback, and robotics, it delivers practical solutions to some of the most pressing healthcare issues.

by David Pettigrew

Ageing populations and the growing prevalence of chronic diseases are placing healthcare infrastructure under greater pressure than ever before. At a time of significant budgetary constraint, technology is proving a key force in combating these growing problems, particularly in the form of connected health.

Broadly defined as the use of technology to provide healthcare at a distance, connected health is an evolution from existing delivery models such as telehealth and telemedicine services. The latter are focused on the transmission of raw data between two locations