The document discusses wireless health and how the convergence of pervasive technologies like ubiquitous sensing, wireless connectivity, cloud computing and social networks can enable diagnosis, therapy and health monitoring anywhere and anytime through individualized and preventative care. It notes that ubiquitous connectivity and computing are bringing unprecedented mobility to other areas like work, entertainment and socializing and that this trend is infiltrating healthcare with the promise of improving quality, convenience, reach and cost of care through wireless health solutions. It also states that there are challenges in medical care and unmet needs across different populations that present big opportunities for rethinking existing healthcare models in developing nations facing double burdens of disease.

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Wireless Health: Remaking of
Medicine by Pervasive Technologies
Mehran Mehregany and Ashwini Pullabhatla
Wireless Health Program
Case School of Engineering San Diego Programs

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Wireless Health
Enabling diagnosis, therapy and monitoring of health-related
conditions by tracking relevant biomarkers, managing
treatment regimen and monitoring progress…while the
patient goes about his/her daily life.
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Convergence of
Pervasive Technologies
ubiquitous
sensing
wireless
connectivity
cloud
computing
social
networks

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Medicine Will Change
clinic/hospital
appointment
population
reactive
anywhere
anytime
individualized
preventative
Individualized, preventative medicine that is
time and place independent

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Ubiquitous connectivity and computing are
bringing about unprecedented
mobility…working, entertainment, shopping,
socializing, gaming, etc., anytime, anywhere.
This trend is also infiltrating health care,
promising significant improvements in quality,
convenience, reach and cost of care through
“wireless health” solutions.
What Is the Big Opportunity?

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• Presence of challenges in medical care
• Unmet needs at both ends of the developmental
spectrum.
• Developing nations are facing double burden of diseases.
• Need to re-think the existing healthcare model.
Where Is the Big Opportunity?

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