The Growing Value of Connected Health

Worth just $3.3 billion three years ago, the connected-devices market is expected to reach a value of $8 billion in the U.S. by 2018—and it'll have plenty of impact on how Americans manage their health.

"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," writes Patricia Mechael, executive vice president of the Personal Connected Health Alliance. "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."

Learn more at the alliance's Connected Health Conference, Dec. 11–14 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, DC. For Mechael's article and more, see www.pchaconference.org/consumerization-health-and-wellness-personal-health-tech.