healthcare.digital November 29, 2025
Nelson Advisors

Introduction:

The healthcare sector is currently witnessing a paradigm shift of historical magnitude, transitioning from a reactive, hospital-centric model to a proactive, continuous, and patient-centric ecosystem. At the heart of this transformation lies the “Internet of Health” (IoH), a term that describes the convergence of consumer electronics, clinical diagnostics and cloud computing.

Unlike the broader Internet of Things (IoT), which encompasses everything from smart refrigerators to industrial sensors, or the hospital-bound Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), the IoH represents a distinct domain where patient-generated health data (PGHD) from consumer wearables, smartwatches, smart rings, connected scales and blood pressure cuffs, is elevated to the status of clinical evidence.

The trajectory of this domain is defined by a struggle for legitimacy. For...

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