Abstract

Internet of Medical Things for Intelligent Care

Gene Dantsker, Director, Qualcomm LIFE Inc

Modern health care is undergoing an unprecedented shift from volume-driven to value-driven medicine, characterized by outcomes-based payment models and enabled by disruptive technologies that are decentralizing health care and engaging the patient. Access to the patient is enabled both via the evolving pervasive communication infrastructure as well as a plethora of widespread communication-enabled medical devices called the Internet of Medical Things (IOMT). As a result, the point of care is shifting and now spans the entire acuity spectrum, from hospital to home and points in between. Offerings in therapeutics and diagnostics are shifting toward those that incorporate compliance and outcomes via real world data captured from the patients’ interaction with digitally-enabled drug delivery systems as well as companion diagnostics, resulting in value models for providers, manufacturers and payers to enact actionable visibility into patient populations that are lowering costs and improving targeted delivery of healthcare.