"Connected Health Summit" articles

CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference , which was recently held in San Francisco, featured a very vibrant discussion where panelists and audience members attempted to determine if there was a significant market opportunity for the support of connected healthcare and fitness devices. Parks Associates presented research which highlighted the fact that the majority of connected health and fitness device owners (more than 90%) set up their devices on their own or with...

The Internet of Things opens many new opportunities for the connected consumer.  Startups are targeting every aspect of the home, the car, and the body, with applications focused on safety, security, comfort, convenience, health, and wellbeing. Each year at Parks Associates’ CONNECTIONS™ Conference , venture capitalists speak on a session about the future direction of IoT investing. At the 2017 event, session attendees were asked their opinions on where start-up activity...

International research firm Parks Associates  will host the fourth-annual Connected Health Summit: Engaging Consumers , August 29-31 at the Omni Hotel in San Diego, CA. The event will analyze the roles of connected health technologies and innovations in driving changes in consumer behaviors and business models and is focused on data-driven, human-centric patient experience and engagement. Early registration  for the three-day event, which includes a pre-show research...

The health insurer industry recognizes that the current way of doing business is not sustainable long term. Insurers either keep shifting more cost to consumers, resulting in consumers directly doing business with care providers, or they kept raising premiums, bankrupting consumers, and eventually causing their own demise—either out of business or government moves in to create a single payer system. As current thinking goes, insurers want to change their role from a gatekeeper...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a market status report on telehealth and remote health monitoring last month. Though nothing new from my knowledge gain per se, it is a good read and reminds me of how slow the reimbursement policy has evolved since I started covering digital health in 2006. CMS is the gatekeeper of Medicare’s reimbursement policy and has historically been slow to embrace telehealth or remote health monitoring for fear of over-utilization and cost...

Health Affairs , a well-recognized health journal, recently published a study on telehealth (what we call “virtual care”) this week. The article contains plenty of valuable information, and the media that reported on this study used headlines such as: “Are virtual doctor visits really cost-effective? Not so much, study says,” from Kaiser Health News “Telehealth drives up healthcare utilization and spending,” from Modern Healthcare “Remote...

Before sharing her insights with the attendees of the 2016 Connected Health Summit , Mimi Winsberg MD, Medical Director, Psychiatry Lead at Ginger.io, shared her perspective on the future of the connected health market: What's new in 2016 that keeps you upbeat/optimistic about the connected health market? There is increasing corporate and consumer interest in mental health. Consumers who work in healthy environments are more likely to see mental health as a top...

Prior to speaking at the 2016 Connected Health Summit , Jeroen Brouwer, Director of Business Development and Sales at Philips, answered several key industry questions: What’s new in 2016 that keeps you upbeat/optimistic about the connected health market? I am very optimistic about the connected health market. We are leading an expansion in the connected health market towards medical grade devices (including the wearable). Also, there is a strong expansion towards...