Personal devices to improve smart health connected health

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Some companies in smart health connected health design tablets and smart health connected objects. Philips, very active in this sector, recommends BYOD instead: "Bring Your Own Devices". A practice borrowed from the professional world which consists in using personal devices.

In a very interesting infographic, the Danish company Philips presents BYOD's interest in the smart health connected health sector. Bring Your Own Devices is a well-known practice among entrepreneurs that allows their employees to use their personal devices.

Making life easier for caregivers and patients

Philips is thus exploring the contributions of this practice in smart health connected health. The patient would simply have to connect to a medical platform, for example, from their computer or smartphone. The illustrated use cases evoke this subject, but also the possibility of connecting medical devices to these devices used by a large part of patients.

This would make it possible to very quickly collect data from a patient's scanner via a mobile application. This is why the infographic below was produced. The object in question is called Lumify. It makes it possible to do ultrasounds very quickly and to receive live information on a mobile device.

In addition to the publicity effect, this practice is a great way for the healthcare team to become more efficient as members use devices they know well. This improves data usage, improves access to patient records, and improves doctor-to-patient relationships.

For Philips analysts, experts and hospitals themselves can take advantage of this trend. BYOD necessarily reduces the cost of equipment, reduces the cost of care, and could facilitate recruitment.

A sector to develop: smart health connected objects

The professionals questioned believe it, in any case the medical organizations and the providers are 68% convinced that the practice will be fully adopted in 2018 and integrated into the healthcare system. They are already 51% to have adopted this practice in their operation, whether for their employees or for patients.

While most of them have apps for smartphones and tablets, they are only 4% to declare being able to support the functionalities of the smart health connected objects such as smart health connected wristbands, blood pressure monitors, activity trackers, etc.

Risks to anticipate

Another major problem is added to this phenomenon and it is common to all devices. Philips identifies four possible brakes on this beneficial trend : security, connectivity, technical assistance to users to set up and compliance with patient data and American health insurance rules.

The Danish company is based on cases of abuse in companies where employees were spied on by their employers. The designer of the smart health connected health platform and Lumify is nonetheless confident in BYOD as this infographic shows.

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