UT San Antonio
School of Nursing

Benefits of Connected Health

What are the benefits of connected health? Why should I use the Connected Health Platform?

Enhance Engagement

Connected health makes it easier for patients to engage in their own self-management of diseases at home. Mobile, wearable, and wireless devices can monitor your blood glucose, blood pressure, diet,fitness activities, etc.

Improve Coordination

Connected health improves family and caregiver's coordination by sharing patients' health information and condition with their family and/or caregivers.

Support Clinical Decision Making

Health professionals can access patients' health information easily via connected health platform. When health professionals have better knowledge of the patients' health, they can make better clinical decisions.

Promote Health

Connected health can improve patients' health by aggregating health data from multiple sources, helping patients understand and monitor their health status as a whole.

Promote Healthcare

Connected health can assist health professionals in improving healthcare quality and healthcare outcomes.

Reduce Costs

Health care and insurance costs can be reduced by using connected health solutions to better manage chronic diseases.

The University of Texas at San Antonio

School of Nursing

7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229
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UT San Antonio Health Science Center is the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio. It includes schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, health professions, graduate biomedical sciences and public health, and a clinical enterprise called UT Health San Antonio, which conducts 2.5 million patient visits yearly.

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