IBM AT Offering

Even IBM is working in the world of AT, per this recent posting, which starts like this:

Caring for patients with chronic illnesses is costly—nearly $1.27 trillion today and predicted to grow much larger. To address this trend, we have designed and built a platform, called Personal Care Connect (PCC), to facilitate the remote monitoring of patients. By providing caregivers with timely access to a patient's health status, they can provide patients with appropriate preventive interventions, helping to avoid hospitalization and to improve the patient's quality of care and quality of life.

Here's the datasheet on Personal Care Connect, and their approach:

This solution was developed to improve a patient’s quality of life by helping to:

• Limit a patient's health risk
• Increase their comfort level
• Reduce the number of primary care visits as well as reducing emergency care and hospital admissions.

In the burgeoning AT business, having big brands like IBM dive in with one or both feet is a market accelerator.