Connected health tools must be innovated for success with value-based care

The healthcare sector must become more proficient in deploying automation and enablement technologies as the industry faces an increasingly demanding user base and moves toward a value-based care strategy, according to analyst firm EY's latest health report. WHY IT MATTERS The report highlights the connections healthcare players need to move the industry forward in the face of digitization, and explores how redefining value in healthcare is leading to new ways of delivering care. For consumers and physicians, healthcare systems lag in introducing digital health technologies, and the report notes the major challenge for health systems around the world is how to unlock the power of digital health technologies as an enabler of real system change. In addition to a "digital backbone" that will eventually transform the patient's end-to-end consumer experience, digital tools will also start to move the location of more care into the user's home. The report also pointed out upcoming 5G network capabilities will help power the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and connectivity requirements needed to provide at-home care services and more sophisticated mobile and telehealth technologies.