"remote health monitoring" articles

Adding connected health applications to a smart home platform opens up additional, complementary revenue opportunities, yet some of these paths will not result in a straight-forward replication of conventional revenue models. This is especially true for applications that touch a patient’s health and require collaboration with healthcare professionals. For others, the smart home industry needs to think outside the box to build channels and experiment with new revenue models. Parks...

Is connected health the future of healthcare? Parks Associates digital health research shows consumers are adopting an ever-increasing number of tools and services that help them measure, track, and better understand their personal health and wellness.  Nearly 30% of U.S. broadband households own a connected health device , and 12% own more than one of these devices.  Jennifer Kent , Director, Research Quality & Product Development at Parks Associates, recently...

New connected health research from Parks Associates reveals some U.S. digital health device owners are willing to share the personal data generated by these devices in exchange for a health insurance discount. However, the willingness to share data varies based on the device used: 42% of digital pedometer owners are willing to share data for an insurance break 35% of smart watch owners are willing to share data for an insurance discount 26% of sleep-quality...

In a new article for TWICE magazine , Parks Associates director of research Harry Wang outlines the wearables market potential for device OEMs. Fitness and health trackers currently represent the most popular category within the wearables market, he says, but they are also subject to obstacles that can block the growth of adoption. Most notably, fitness and health wearables face an obstacle common to all fitness devices—they are at the mercy of users’ motivations. The...

Ten years ago, in 2004, most people did not yet have a smartphone. The iPhone and the myriad of Android-powered phones were not yet available. The progress made in the mobile market over the span of a single decade is remarkable—but even more remarkable is the market's continued transformation over the next 10 years. As smartphones become controllers for uses well beyond core communications and attach to everyday products in our homes, a new world of opportunity is at hand. By 2025,...

Matthew Holt at Health 2.0 had a few questions regarding recent Parks Associates data on consumers’ digital health activities published in this infographic . Thanks, Matthew, for your interest in our data and for starting this discussion. First, the data source. Parks Associates fields consumer surveys throughout the year on emerging consumer technologies and technology-related services, including those in the digital health space. This particular infographic pulls from a...

Consumers are gaining increasingly active roles in their healthcare services. Spending is shifting from employers to employees, and personal technologies give consumers the ability to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Nearly 60% of U.S. broadband households own some kind of personal health and wellness device, such as a digital weight scale or glucometer, and new designs and form factors, such as smart watches, have generated considerable consumer interest. The...

This week, I had the opportunity to attend mHealth + Telehealth World Congress in Boston. The three-day conference focuses on health system and health payer strategies for incorporating mobile and telemedicine technologies to improve care outcomes and drive operational efficiencies.   As my third consecutive year attending this event, the conference served as a nice benchmark for progress in the digital health initiatives among conference attendees, which are overwhelmingly care...