As the connected home industry grows and smart home technologies advance, a huge impact is being made on the digital healthcare sector that could revolutionize health systems and the way care is delivered to patients. In 2012 venture capital funding of digital health radically increased, with investors injecting a 46 percent increase in money and a 56 percent rise in deals in healthcare compared with 2011. With cumulative funding totaling US$1.4 billion in 2012, the industry looks set to continue to thrive.
As the connected home industry grows and smart home technologies advance, a huge impact is being made on the digital healthcare sector that could revolutionize health systems and the way care is delivered to patients. In 2012 venture capital funding of digital health radically increased, with investors injecting a 46 percent increase in money and a 56 percent rise in deals in healthcare compared with 2011. With cumulative funding totaling US$1.4 billion in 2012, the industry looks set to continue to thrive.
As part of a global connected home summit program to take place in London next month, Sébastien Marché, Director for Strategic Operations at Orange Healthcare, will speak about the game-changing potential of home-based patient cares. Marché will address facilitating the growth of home-based patient care, chronic disease remote management, the move by device manufacturers from a one shot ‘medical devices' strategy to ‘connected medical devices' and enabling the automatic flow of patient data from patient to caregiver via connected medical devices.
In addition Eda Uluca, Head of Division at Turkcell, will look at achieving healthcare reform through remote healthcare projects. Uluca will tackle mobile information and knowledge portals for healthcare practitioners, remote monitoring and education of chronic disease patients via mobile communication technologies, user and patient friendly mobile health technologies and cost effective use of the latest communication technologies for a sustainable m-health system.
“Demand and expectation of smart services are growing and the healthcare industry is taking huge leaps and becoming an increasingly significant area of growth in the industry,” said Kamelija Stefanova, Research Manager at Informa Telecoms and Media. “Technology is transforming the way that medicine is practiced and care is delivered to patients, and investment is on the rise. This trend looks set to continue in 2013 and beyond.”