Personal medical devices track an ever increasing amount of patient information away from the hospital. Coupled with quantitative self devices such as fitness trackers or calories counters, provide valuable information as the condition of a patient. Digital Health is growing a new realm of opportunities for biospace professionals. Yet challenges exist. Medical information software are archaic and siloed. Medical system is slow to adopt.

1. Enabling Remote Patient
Monitoring
Opportunities and Challenges

2. Akhsar Kharebov
akhsar@infometers.com
August 2013

4. Previously
<200 years ago

5. People died young

7. Main cause of death was
acute

8. Main cause of death was
acute

9. Innovation focused on
solving acute problems

11. Dramatically increasing life

13. Currently

14. People live long lives, face
other risks

15. Chronic Conditions are
responsible for most deaths

17. Chronic Conditions are tied
to 75% of the costs

19. Require Monitoring and
Management

21. Management Traditionally
Provider Driven
Diagnosis, Treatment and Management

22. Top Down Approach
Doctors see patient at their office

23. Expensive
Significant Time from Medical Staff

25. Limited Efficacy
Lifestyle unaffected

26. Future
In Theory

27. Patient Choice

28. Ubiquitously Present
Part of Your Life

30. Continuous Feedback
Annotating Everything

32. Patient Driven
Or at least engaged

33. Old and New
Challenges

34. EMR not designed to
support remote monitoring

35. Low reimbursement for
monitoring or prevention

36. Federal Guidelines Still
Unclear

38. Technical adoption is slow
in medicine

39. At the same time…

40. Development and
manufacturing costs have
dropped
At least for non-FDA devices…

41. Computational power has
grown dramatically

43. Digital Health Data
Next Big Frontier

45. Devices Generate Most of
the Data Today

47. Data Represents Challenge
and Opportunity

48. Traditional Healthcare
Industry Stores
434 petabytes of data

49. Making Sense of it is Non
Trivial

51. Additionally

52. Personal Health Data is
growing rapidly

53. Many self-monitoring
options
FDA & QS

55. Examples

56. FitBit

57. Withings

58. BodyMedia & Jawbone

59. Basis

60. vimeo.com/
45229049

61. Opportunities

62. Patient Monitoring

63. On sites like IndieGoGo
Crowd Funding

64. $846,675 in preorders
Misfit Shine

66. $ 1,664,375 in preorders
Scanadu

68. Crowd Testing

70. “Right now we are giving you access to our
first version of the device as an exploratory
tool, where you are the researcher! By
helping us collect data, we can file our
application to the FDA for market approval
as an over-the-counter consumer-grade
diagnostic tool.”
Scanadu is not yet FDA
approved
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/scanadu-scout-the-first-medical-tricorder

71. CrowdTesting Platform, IndieGoGo Partner
HealthTechHatch.com

72. Personalized Diagnostic
Services

73. Drug and Therapy Trials

74. New Delivery Vehicles and
Devices

75. vimeo.com/
45229049

76. New Distribution and
Market Ecosystem

79. Summary

80. Challenges remain

81. A lot of new opportunities

83. Next 3 years crucial

84. akhsar@infometers.com
Thank you!