Connected Health Services: Framework for an Impact Assessment

Journal
Journal of medical Internet research
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Chouvarda, Ioanna
Maramis, Christos
Livitckaia, Kristina
Burmaoglu, Serhat
Belani, Hrvoje
Kool, Jan
Lewandowski, Roman
DOI
10.2196/14005
Abstract
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 an understanding of the concepts of CH impact. As services based on CH technologies go beyond standard clinical interventions and assessments of medical devices or medical treatments, the need for standardization and for new ways of measurements and assessments emerges when studying CH impact.
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