We believe that a self-managed wireless health-monitoring framework can significantly improve the quality of healthcare while providing patient comfort, mobility, and continuity of care. Such a framework does not require the doctor to be in close proximity to the patient; however, it still provides the same quality of care. The doctor is enabled to monitor more patients effectively. The number of errors related to paper-based processes is reduced significantly in an autonomically managed framework. The proposed framework leads to better resource utilization, better resource sharing, reduces doctor's intervention, and hence makes healthcare more affordable.

Such an open standards-based health-monitoring platform would motivate more standards-based hardware and software designs and shift the biomedical OEMs from proprietary hardware-centric platforms to standards-based software-centric general-purpose PC platforms.