press releasesPersonalised healthcare – the New Wave
Demands on healthcare throughout the developed world are changing. The combination of the global demographic trend towards an ageing population coupled with a sedentary western lifestyle and poor diet is leading to higher probability and earlier onset of chronic disease. Factoring in the growing patient demands for personalised treatment, medicine and services, the result is huge cost pressures on healthcare.
Healthcare information systems in use today were mainly designed to manage acute illness, such as infections and injury, making them ill-equipped to cope with the growing requirement for pervasive monitoring of long-term conditions. With healthcare budgets already overstretched and fewer carers – professional and non-professional – available to meet these increased needs, the forecasted additional demands are simply unsustainable using current practice. A new paradigm is required.
The Sensium™ connects the mobile individual to the network, simply, unobtrusively, affordably
The Sensium Revolution
By delivering the wireless infrastructure for intelligent, non-intrusive continuous monitoring, the Sensium™ is poised to deliver a new wave of lifestyle-compatible, personalised care applications – with the potential to transform the treatment and management of chronic diseases for millions of people.
The Sensium platform – designed to work with a range of body-worn physical and bio-chemical sensors – is enabling a new generation of low-cost, disposable healthcare solutions that effectively bring the economies of scale of the semiconductor industry to healthcare.
Offering quality of life for users and critical data for healthcare professionals, applications built on the Sensium platform are now set to realise the potential for real-time, pro-active healthcare monitoring and 24/7 diagnostic and intervention capability at dramatically reduced cost.
By providing the complete infrastructure for an end-to-end telemedicine system, this new integrated platform has the potential to revolutionise the architecture of healthcare information systems, providing a unique platform for analysis and decision-making based on real-time data.
With the promise of enhanced quality and efficiency of treatment through more timely, personalised care, unprecedented freedom, flexibility and control for users, exciting possibilities exist for “digital plasters” to ultimately become over the counter items at consumer cost levels.
