21st Century Health Care Challenges: A Connected Health Approach

• The great forces in human and technology development that affect the future in all areas of human activity

• Health care innovation have led to “Open Health” or peer-to-peer health that enables sharing of knowledge with innovation as critical shift.

• A digital revolution in health care is speeding up → Telemedicine, predictive diagnostics, wearable sensors and a host of new applications will transform how people manage their health

Health education for adults and elders

Unlocking the opportunity of digital health

• The digital age holds out the promise of innovative technology and business models

• Internet and smartphone penetration is growing, and the technology infrastructure is moving to cloud-based services.

• Health care providers need to address the major changes that are driving patient behavior and adopt a customer service mindset.

Health care practitioners should keep in mind that medicine must always be patient-centric treatment, and technology is merely a tool to improve the patient’s health outcome