As our understanding of health and wellness continues to evolve, so does the way we design, build, and equip our homes. In today's modern lifestyle, there's a growing emphasis on creating living spaces that foster well-being, and this has led to collaborations between builders, appliance companies, and technology solutions that promote a healthier, safer, and more sustainable way of life. This session addresses how appliance manufacturers, builders, and other home solution providers are focused on the residents' health and well-being, including elements like clean air, natural lighting, energy efficiency, and predictive and proactive safety measures. Speakers address how the integration of health-conscious design, innovative appliances, lighting solutions, and safety features in modern homes is shaping a new era of living.
11:00 AM CT
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Parks Associates
11:15 AM CT
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Parks Associates
ŌURA
11:45 AM CT
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Parks Associates
Tonal
Silvertree
Withings
Eight Sleep
The role of connected devices in health and wellness, along with new business strategies and consumer-centric healthcare, is pivotal in shaping the future of the healthcare industry. Connected devices, often referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare, have revolutionized the way individuals monitor and manage their health. These devices encompass a wide range of technologies, from smartwatches and fitness trackers to more specialized medical equipment like remote monitoring systems for chronic conditions. This session addresses the role of connected devices in monitoring, personalized services, patient engagement, and integration with virtual care. Speakers highlight new strategies to monetize data, subscription business models, and the new focus on preventive care.
11:00 AM CT
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Parks Associates
11:15 AM CT
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Parks Associates
Becklar Personal Health & Safety
11:45 AM CT
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Parks Associates
Sensoria Health
PreventScripts
Baracoda Daily Healthtech
Zyter|TruCare
The pandemic amplified concerns around the safety and security of property and family members, driving consumers to seek solutions for these heightened needs. There is rising demand for new smart home solutions that enable independent living, secure delivery, indoor air quality, and advanced security services. This session examines solutions that integrate health and smart home to deliver new benefits and experiences to consumers.
02:00 PM CT
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Parks Associates
02:15 PM CT
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Parks Associates
Electronic Caregiver - ECG
02:45 PM CT
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Parks Associates
ipCapital Group, Inc.
Alarm.com
Wellvii
Anthropos Digital Care
Vayyar Imaging
Sensor-based technology is changing how consumers interact with their health and wellness. This session addresses the impact of innovative solutions that are enabling consumers to track and monitor their environment at home and their personal health metrics, including relaying information to doctors through connected health devices. This session brings together a variety of industry players to talk about the impact of connected health devices in the home environment, with a special focus on safety.
03:45 PM CT
Co-located with CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference. Shared sessions are indicated with an asterisk (*).
03:00 PM CT
Parks Associates
Parks Associates welcomes attendees and provides opening comments on the state of the market and future of technology for consumers at home and at work.
03:15 PM CT
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Parks Associates
Riverbend Sandler Pools
Nimbio
Independa
Comcast
Resideo
Most connected home product categories have been rising steadily in perceived value as prices fall and the adoption rates and installed base grow. Connectivity and integration of devices enable data to be shared and create new value through services delivered. This session highlights the role of broadband, hardware, software, and security solutions in building connected home services across energy, security, and controls. This session provides insights from key players in the smart home ecosystem.
04:15 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Comcast
04:45 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Nice Group
Silicon Labs
Sunnova
Brinks Home
Sensory
Security system apps continue to be the most common tool for controlling multiple smart home products, but consumers also look to the CE and tech giants as a control point for devices in the home. This session highlights the key channels that have an opportunity to provide a whole-home experience, incorporating security, smart home, energy, and entertainment devices across a unified platform.
05:45 PM CT
Parks Associates welcomes conference attendees for networking and refreshments following the day’s sessions.
07:30 AM CT
07:30 AM CT
08:30 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
The rapid expansion of telehealth and remote care brings both challenges and opportunities for players across the healthcare ecosystem. This opening presentation provides insight into the growth of technology solutions and the current market trends in connected health, highlighting Parks Associates’ industry and consumer research.
08:45 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Life365
CareBand
ResMed
Kajeet
Care providers want remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions that automate data processing and analytics, showing providers not just the raw results of the tracking but also the meaning of these data. This session addresses the advances in RPM from basic preventative care to management and monitoring of severe disease states and critical conditions. Speakers also address the increased scrutiny with regards to device and data accuracy and the implications for both BYOD models and deployments from care providers and insurers.
10:15 AM CT
09:45 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Dexcom
Knowing in real time how lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, and sleep can impact your health and wellness is transformational. As a leader in Continuous Glucose Monitoring technology (CGM) and pioneer in connected health solutions, Dexcom has seen firsthand how CGM is empowering people with diabetes to make data-driven decisions for better health outcomes. With an estimated 500 million people living with diabetes globally and the opportunity to apply health sensing technology more broadly, we’re only just beginning to explore the potential of CGM. Hear from Dexcom’s Chief Technology Officer Girish Naganathan on how the company is leading the medtech revolution and innovating for the future.
10:45 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Angle Health
Electronic Caregiver
Recuro Health
Lyric Health
Silicon Labs
Companies are increasingly offering not just primary care but integrative care with the virtual experience at its core. This includes chronic condition management, mental health, dermatology, and specialist referrals and visits. Connected health devices play a key role in this transformation, offering clinicians insights into patients’ health status that they cannot discover by questionnaires or conversations alone. This session addresses consumer choice in care and how care is shifting.
11:45 AM CT
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Parks Associates
Eaton
With staff shortages growing, caregivers are increasingly relying on technology to prioritize their time and monitor individuals remotely. To support these needs, Eaton is applying their AI/ML expertise to inferentially sense activities of daily life through energy use patterns.
12:15 PM CT
01:15 PM CT
Parks Associates
This session highlights Parks Associates data showing adoption of connected health devices, the role of data and healthcare integration, and emerging applications, especially those around safety and security.
01:30 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
RePure
Airthings
Lennox International
Savant
As we shift into a post-pandemic world, the demand for healthy homes and superior air quality has exploded. Clean air is vital to home health, making air quality sensors and smart indoor climate products essential to healthy living. As indoor air quality grows in importance, smart climate control devices such as smart air purifiers and smart humidifiers/dehumidifiers will increase in adoption. This session addresses new solutions that address different air quality issues.
02:15 PM CT
Moderator
The SAA Group, LLC
NextGen Executive Consultants LLC
Biotricity
Business models across the connected health space have been radically altered with the policy and reimbursement changes spurred by the pandemic. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid led the way in expanding reimbursement for telehealth visits and remote patient monitoring services. Greater acceptance of connected health by regulators, payers, providers, and patients have drastically widened the connected health market, and adoption of connected health has boomed. Then the end of the Public Health Emergency – and a series of continuing waivers – brings new changes and uncertainty impacting the connected health market. This session addresses the reimbursement and policy trends that connected health ecosystem players need to watch in 2023.
02:45 PM CT
03:15 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
UnaliWear
Dementia Society of America
Becklar Personal Health & Safety
Aging and Health Technology Watch
Cherish Health, Inc.
When considering solutions, independent seniors are interested in solutions that can be added to their current home and are self-monitored. Preferences are evenly split between home-based systems and wearable systems. Seniors purchasing solutions for themselves look first to independent living solutions specialists, then to solutions providers, health insurers, and retailers. This session addresses tech solutions for seniors and caregivers, with a special look at purchase channels and growth in PERS.
04:15 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Electronic Caregiver - ECG
04:45 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Ivani
Xailient
Actuate
Origin
Devices with video and audio data capture capacity are the fastest-growing smart home categories, and analytics are improving due to more powerful edge components (chipsets) or more effective and efficient cloud interactions. This session addresses the opportunities for growth as a result of advanced technologies embedded in devices.
05:30 PM CT
07:30 AM CT
07:30 AM CT
08:15 AM CT
Parks Associates
The development of smart sensors and the decreasing costs of devices have made it possible to offer chronic disease management, aging-in-place, and post-acute care services in the home. Truly continuous patient monitoring at home typically occurs in one of two approaches: wireless wearable monitoring sensors, patches, and devices or via environmental sensors. This opening presentation highlights new developments and trends in passive monitoring solutions.
08:30 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
CLEAR
Caregiver Smart Solutions
Parkland Health
The healthcare market is permanently changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both consumer and clinician behaviors are altered, and telehealth and connected health device adoption will remain strong for the near future. This opening session addresses the new services and partnerships emerging and the impact on care outcomes.
09:15 AM CT
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Parks Associates
Optum
09:45 AM CT
10:15 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
BioIntelliSense
Center for Medical Interoperability
MedWand
Omada Health
Health devices — both medical-grade and consumer-oriented — are becoming more capable and accessible, expanding the possibility of virtual care models and empowering consumers with more insight into their own health status. This session addresses the role of connected health and medical-grade devices along with the services that enable data sharing and integration with care providers.
11:00 AM CT
Moderator
The SAA Group, LLC
98point6 Technologies
OncoHealth
Boston Children's Hospital
One of the key limiting factors for virtual visits today is the lack of vital sign and other critical health data to which clinicians would otherwise have access in a facility setting. This lack of data limits the types of conditions that can be treated in a standard virtual consultation model. This session addresses the new models emerging to incorporate medical sensors and devices, which will elevate the level of care that is possible at home and the success of these programs.
12:00 PM CT
01:00 PM CT
Parks Associates
Join Parks Associates for a special presentation.
01:15 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Moen
Ubiety Technologies
Wyze
Consumer demand for Wi-Fi devices like smart cameras and video doorbells will only increase over time. Integration capabilities across smart home devices and security systems create a stickier customer base that is engaged with their system. Security dealers can expand beyond the perimeter of the home with new solutions, including vehicle monitoring and personal emergency services. This session highlights the new role security players have in the home as consumers add more and more connected devices.
02:00 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
United Spinal Association
This session is designed to help understand the transformative power of technology in enabling accessibility and independence for people with disabilities, chronic health conditions, and life-changing diagnoses. The session provides practical guidance for designing technology that is inclusive and accessible by users of all abilities. In addition, the session provide insights into how these technologies can be leveraged to help consumers and caregivers manage care. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the personal aspects of health and the need and demand to incorporate technology that supports consumers at every stage of life.
02:45 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Mighty Acorns Capital
Mobility Ventures
Ethos Capital
Edison Partners
Giacalone Associates
In the last 10 years of development, the smart home market has established important foundations for future growth. In 2023 and beyond, solution creators have the necessary ingredients to deliver on the promise of the vision of the smart home where the sum – an intelligent, integrated, helpful home – is greater than the individual parts. This session brings experts from the industry to share their perspectives on where the next stage of growth and investments are coming from.
11:30 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Alarm.com
02:15 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA)
Kudelski IoT
10:00 AM CT
Parks Associates
Parks Associates research team provides an update on market shifts in 2023, the adoption of connected devices, including smart home, entertainment, healthy and energy devices. This opening presentation features research from the firm’s survey work of 10,000 internet US households.
10:30 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Giacalone Associates
Smartfrog & Canary
Cognitive Systems Corp.
Becklar
CamerEye
AI and advanced video verification technologies are changing the landscape for video security devices. The new capabilities create more context to understand scenarios and determine the best ways to respond. This session highlights the many new use cases and capabililties for video technologies in the home.
11:30 AM CT
Parks Associates
Parks Associates
Consumers continue to adopt connected devices. Now, 51% of US households have a least one connected health device. There is growing familiarity and use of telehealth and virtual care as a result of the pandemic. In addition, remote patient monitoring solutions are creating new opportunities for more patient-centric care. This research presentation highlights consumer adoption of and interest in new health to home solutions.
12:00 PM CT
01:00 PM CT
Parks Associates
Parks Associates
New applications and services stemming from IoT platforms are enabling small-to-medium business (SMB) and MDU owners and managers to have greater insight into the metrics and real-time analytics of their properties. The integration of new tech also provides great value to the end user and enables monitoring across ecosystems in a business or multi-tenant building.
01:30 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Imprint Energy
Care Daily
Alarm.com
Lifeguard Health
The growing senior population will rely on technology solutions to help with healthcare, communications, and living independently as long as possible. This session addresses the growing demand for technology solutions in the home to help caregivers and seniors enhance safety and security, track important health metrics, and communicate with care providers.
02:15 PM CT
Parks Associates
Safety and security have long been the top value propositions for the smart home market. Now, players are expanding on the peace-of-mind concept to end users with new applications of familiar technologies and service models. This research presentation highlights current adoption of home security solutions and market growth.
02:30 PM CT
Parks Associates wraps up the research workshop with final comments before the opening session.
Interest in features and solutions among care organizations is now more nuanced than prior to the pandemic, with interest differing according to the size and specific needs of organizations. Private practices require more streamlined and simpler solutions than larger organizations. They cannot assume that patients will be willing to download an app and create a unique account with a username and long-term password. This session addresses the new platforms emerging to meet demand and the advanced solutions offering new customer healthcare experiences, providing more patient-centric and holistic care.
11:00 AM CT
Parks Associates
Telehealth usage has leveled out at majority adoption among US internet households. In 2022, telehealth usage among US internet households dropped, from its pandemic high of 64% adoption in 2021 to 55% adoption. This research presentation provides highlights on the drivers and barriers to virtual care including the latest adoption and use of these services.
11:15 AM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Valencell
AliveCor
BINAH.AI
Alarm.com
Center for Medical Interoperability / Connectivity Standards Alliance Health and Wellness Working Group
According to Parks Associates research, over half of diabetics report that their care provider has given them a connected health device in the past 12 months. A quarter report that this device is specifically to monitor an ongoing chronic condition. This session addresses the advancements in technology, the integration of devices and services, and new tools empowering and helping consumers have a better understanding of personal health metrics.
12:00 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
MedWand
12:30 PM CT
02:00 PM CT
02:15 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Validic
FallCall Solutions
03:00 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
Electronic Caregiver - ECG
03:30 PM CT
Moderator
Parks Associates
A&D Medical
Care Daily