Personal Telehealth Overview

Technologies to support new approaches

Around the world, people are living longer and striving to lead independent, happy, and healthy lives. At the same time, we are seeing a dramatic rise in the number of people with illnesses—and high costs associated with managing and treating them.

The healthcare community is looking for new approaches to meet these challenges and are seeking approaches where:

• Patients remain at home
• Patients and clinicians work together to achieve the best outcomes
• Patients are viewed in their totality, including their health status, as well as their social network, and their individual capabilities and preferences

Backed by nearly a decade of ethnographic and health research, Intel believes innovations in personal telehealth technology will help usher in an era of patient management marked by new ways of envisioning the delivery of care.

To realize this vision, we are committed to developing technology to better care for the aging and ill—personal health solutions that are based on the specific needs of these populations and designed to allow people to age in place and take a more active role in their health management.

Our hope—and our expectation—is that these telehealth advances will allow people to harness the true power of information from the comfort of their own homes, turning that information into action and better health outcomes.