Majority of consumers own connected health devices 

ADDISON, Texas – Fifty four percent of U.S. Internet households own at least one connected health device and 23% own three or more, according to new consumer data from Parks Associates. Additionally, 57% of consumers find sharing device health data appealing and more than one in three seek care providers who offer this.  “Driven by smart watch adoption, consumers and patients have become used to using devices to collect, transmit and interpret health data,” said Kristen Hanich, director, Broadband and Health Research, Parks Associates. “Remote care in the home relies both on the quality of patient monitoring and on the quality of the insights provided to the care team and family caregivers. The use of predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms in health care turn real-time data into actionable and potentially life-saving insights and diagnostic support.” The research firm will highlight findings during an industry webinar, “Health IoT on the Edge: Accessible, Smart, Secure,” on Aug. 10, in cooperation with Syntiant, to discuss the new applications in health and senior care via the use of low-power, edge-computing devices. The webinar addresses the use of health device data to empower patient care, the role of AI and algorithms in enabling new use cases, low-power edge AI solutions, and the top use cases in remote patient monitoring and senior care.