Smart Health Working Woman

The future of health and well-being is smart

As the future of health focuses more and more on self-care, consumers are spending more on products like smart wearables or smart home devices that help to improve their health, fitness, nutrition, appearance, sleep, and mindfulness.

Internet of Things
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Jun 25, 2025

What are smart health appliances?

Just a few years ago, digitalization in healthcare sounded distant, but it is already in full swing now. Smart health appliances such as fitness tracker and smart watches can record and document data in real time. Important medical appointments can be set up digitally to help efficiently from any location. Decision-making and self-care behaviors are digitally supported and encouraged like never before. All of this enables patient engagement to support healthiness and well-being what will become increasingly important in the future.

Future challenges in the healthcare system

We live in a world of rising population. The latest projections by the United Nations suggest, that the global population is expected to continue growing for another 50 – 60 years, reaching a peak of around 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s. At the same time, life expectancy is increasing – the average longevity is projected to reach around 77.4 years globally in 2054. By the late 2070s, the global population aged 65 and older is projected to reach 2.2 billion.[1] This development presents us with challenges: Everybody wants to live healthy, vital, and as independently as possible into old age.

[1] United Nations (2024). World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results. UN DESA/POP/2024/TR/NO. 9. New York: United Nations.

Smart tech can support a healthy, independent living

The main focus of the digitalization of healthcare is to help patients take responsibility and manage their own health matters. The latest high-tech devices are completely changing the way we can monitor and improve our own health status, take preventative measures against chronic diseases, and interact with healthcare professionals. Patients can become aware of the smallest changes in their health, monitor their vital signs and know what they should do to live well.

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Good health increasingly means taking responsibility of our long-term preventive care rather than sporadically treating acute illnesses. It places great emphasis on enhancing well-being to prevent illness. And it recognizes the role of the home as an important factor in individual health improvement and, in the event of illness, care.

With technologies such as sensors, microcontrollers, actuators, connectivity modules, security solutions together with software, the IoT has great potential to prevent diseases and improve health. There are innumerable health wearables and fitness devices able to track key health markers, such as a user’s heart rate or breathing patterns, that may afford users greater awareness of their health and allow them to make pro-active decisions regarding their health and well-being.

We make smart health appliances work

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Smart health appliances microchip
Smart health appliances microchip

Infineon’s portfolio of innovative and state-of-the-art semiconductor solutions support the design of innovative technologies and devices for smart health monitoring, for example medical wearables, preventive healthcare appliances like sleep monitoring and, in the event of illness: solutions for assisted living at home. Sensors, connectivity technologies and security solutions enable massive improvements in secured, efficient, convenient and patient centered health and well-being solutions as well as services for patient engagement.

Even though medical devices consist of a lot of technical know-how, the focus of smart health devices is always on people and their needs. It is about empowering people to have a better and healthier life.