Connected Health Services: Framework for an Impact Assessment.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Connected health (CH), as a new paradigm, manages individual and community health in a holistic manner by leveraging a variety of technologies and has the potential for the incorporation of telehealth and integrated care services, covering the whole spectrum of health-related services addressing healthy subjects and chronic patients. The reorganization of services around the person or citizen has been expected to bring high impact in the health care domain. There are a series of concerns (eg, contextual factors influencing the impact of care models, the cost savings associated with CH solutions, and the sustainability of the CH ecosystem) that should be better addressed for CH technologies to reach stakeholders more successfully. Overall, there is a need to effectively establish

SUBMITTER: Chouvarda I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751095 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature