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Connected Health Business Models for Smart Home Platform Players

Adding connected health applications to a smart home platform opens up additional, complementary revenue opportunities. However, some of these paths will not result in a straight-forward replication of conventional revenue models. This is especially true for applications that touch a patient’s health and require collaboration with healthcare professionals. For others, the smart home industry needs to think “outside the box” to build channels and experiment with new revenue models. Examples of innovative revenue models are summarized below.

From the artical "Connected Health Business Models for Smart Home Platform Players" by Harry Wang.

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