Connected Health Quotes

“Zeo, a manufacturer of a sleep tracking device has amassed the largest database in the world on sleep cycles. If these data can help consumers and insurers change behaviors and improve outcomes, this could potentially be a lucrative business model built upon data analytics.”
― Jody Ranck, Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare

“Similar to IBM’s transition from manufacturing hardware to providing high-value consulting services, medical device manufacturers may use the rich harvest of data that comes from their machines to become health data service providers.”
― Jody Ranck, Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare

“the future of connected health will rest more heavily in the area of analytics and data.”
― Jody Ranck, Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare

“from the beginning of civilization to 2003 humans created a total of five exabytes or one billion gigabytes of data. We now generate at least five exabytes of data every two days. 2”
― Jody Ranck, Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare

“Nearly 75 percent, or approximately $1.7 trillion, of all health spending in the U.S. per year is linked to chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, and diabetes.”
― Jody Ranck, Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare

“Health systems are still intellectually rooted in the early 20th century, where infectious diseases were the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and it made sense for hospitals be at the center of the health care universe. This scenario has been superseded by an aging population with multiple chronic diseases. To deal with this change, we need new modes of distributed health care delivery, a health economy based on prevention, and new technological literacies.”
― Jody Ranck, Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare

“SMART (social, mobile, aware, and real time) technologies and other advances, such as cloud computing infrastructure, will enable much of health care to be moved out of hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offices and into our everyday lives.”
― Jody Ranck, Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare