Connected health is a technology-enabled integrated healthcare service that enables remote communication, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. An important purpose of an efficient patient-centered Connected Health is to improve the digital connection between healthcare professionals and patients, allowing individuals to access the medical care they need anytime, anywhere.
Connected health spans a variety of apps, smart devices (portable and non-portable), mass platforms, and analytics domains, and creates business opportunities through the cycle of information value.
Connected Health creates new business models through the "information value loop" to improve patient outcomes.
A well-planned Connected Health strategy that targets high-cost patient populations through telemonitoring and telemedicine is more conducive to lowering the cost of healthcare when judged by value-based payment models such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOS) or global pooling. Connected Health applies to the treatment of patients with a costly chronic disease, congestive heart failure, which is common in the United States.