Blog articles from 08/2019

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Anne Weiler , CEO, Wellpepper shared her thoughts on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Anne will participate on the  Expanding Reach: Making Remote Patient Monitoring Work  panel on Wednesday, August 28, at 3:45 PM. Panelists who will join her on this session include: Amy Cook , Director, Business Development, Sleep...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Roy Raymann , PhD, Vice President Sleep Science & Scientific Affairs, SleepScore Labs shared his thoughts on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Roy will participate on the Role of Technology: Serving Social and Medical Needs panel on Wednesday, August 28, at 8:45 AM. Panelists who will join him on this session include:...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Mike Maniscalco , CEO, Better Living Technologies gave his insights on top caregiver pain points with the firm's analyst team. Mike will participate on the workshop panel Lessons Learned: Successful Strategies for Engaging Consumers on Tuesday, August 27, at 3:15 PM. Panelists who will join him on this session include: Steve Cashman ,...

One of our mantras at Parks Associates is that many smart home device manufacturers need to strengthen their value propositions in order to win-over the mass market consumer and justify the higher price of connected products. In short, offer consumers more for more, more for less, or at least more for the same cost as competitors. The Yardian (a portmanteau, or mash-up, of “yard” and “guardian”) by Aeon Matrix is a smart irrigation controller that beefs up its value...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Mark Smith, Senior Vice President of Emerging Products UnitedHealthcare shared his thoughts on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Mark will participate as a keynote speaker on Thursday, August 29 at 9:30 AM.   He will discuss how can consumers, companies and other stakeholders harness the power of connected devices to help improve...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Kerrie Holley , Technology Fellow, Optum shared his thoughts on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Kerrie will participate on the  Fireside Chat—AI in Health: Creating Personalized Insight  panel on Wednesday, August 28, at 11:45 AM. Panelists who will join him on this session include: Brenda Cass , Data Science...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness ,  Deborah Merkin , Director of CEO, GiftCard Partners, Inc. , shared her thoughts on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Deborah will participate on the Employee Wellness Programs and Consumer Engagement panel on Wednesday, August 28, at 4:45 PM. Panelists who will join her on this session include: Alexandra Frith, Lifestyle...

Prior to Parks Associates’ sixth-annual  Connected Health Summit: Independent Living and Wellness , Jennifer Fraser , Director of User Experience, Macadamian , shared her thoughts on the connected health market with the firm's analyst team. Jennifer will participate on the IoT Integration: Effective Connected Health Partnerships   panel on Thursday, August 29, at 1:15 PM. Panelists who will join her on this session include: Dr. Renee Dua...