Connected Health Initiative

The Connected Health Initiative reaches out beyond the traditional walls of healthcare institutions to bring care to individuals and families in their everyday surroundings. Mobile communications, remote monitoring, and novel technologies present opportunities to create new models for patient management of chronic diseases.

Working together, Partners Telemedicine and CIMIT are driving the Connected Health vision in order to meet the demands of a rapidly changing healthcare environment, which include:

• Continuing increases in the numbers of patients with chronic disease
• An aging, yet longer living, population of baby boomers

CIMIT’s “Connected Health” team, involving clinicians, technologists, industry partners, and DoD collaborators, will develop and pilot new and effective technologies for integrating wearable physiologic sensors, wireless short-range communication, and knowledge-management software and display, to better serve patient needs.

Learn More: Connected Health Website