Intel Health Guide to be offered in the UK

GE Healthcare and Intel had announced recently that both companies are planning to sell the Intel Health Guide in the UK. Before, GE only marketed the Health Guide in the US.

Health Guide helps monitor and track the health of patients with chronic diseases, supplying information about the illness and allowing two-way videoconferencing. The system can also aid both patients and healthcare professionals to supervise various ailments, like diabetes, chronic lung cancer, high blood pressure and heart failure.

The new marketing bond between the two companies expands home-based healthcare business in the UK. At present, both GE and Intel are selling two well-recognized health-monitoring brands.

GE QuietCare, a behavioural monitoring system designed for the elderly, provides alerts to caregivers signalling patient’s health issues or emergency circumstances, such as a fall or rising health complications. Meanwhile, the Intel Health Guide is a complete personal health system with an online interface to allow health providers to monitor patients while at their home and to deliver care remotely.

Mariah Scott, Director of Sales and Marketing for Intel Digital Health Group, said that the shifting of the needed non-emergency care from the hospital to homes through the use of technologies can enable cost-effective and more personalized delivery of health care to patients.

Both companies stated that about 17.5 million adults across the UK suffer from chronic disease, including one-third of UK residents over 75 years old. By 2030, it is projected that the number of people over 65 suffering from chronic illness will be doubled.