Consumerization of Health and Wellness Via Personal Health Tech

Aug 08, 2016

By Patricia Mechael, Executive Vice President, Personal Connected Health Alliance

The proliferation of connected devices—accounting for $3.3 billion in 2013, and an expected $8 billion by 2018 in the U.S.—are revolutionizing how we approach health and well-being.

Personal connected health is a new paradigm for health promotion that equips individuals to achieve their health pursuits, integrating consumer behaviors and expectations into technologies that make staying or becoming healthy a part of everyday life. It is enabling a more targeted approach to helping people maintain a state of good health, as well as treatment and care for those who are sick.

How we track our health is driven by both the consumerization of health and the availability of new devices and apps to enable improved health and wellness.  Seniors are jumping in as well to promote health longevity.

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