In this excerpt from RoseWater Energy’s The Role of the Integrator podcast, Joe Piccirilli and Bobby Brill discuss the increasing importance of home diagnostics and health monitoring in our lives. He draws parallels to the healthcare industry, where the next big trend is home diagnostics, which can help bend the healthcare cost curve. Piccirilli envisions a future where individuals can conduct their own blood tests and EKGs using home testing equipment. However, he highlights the potential risks if these systems or networks fail, as it could pose health risks in a world where the home is becoming central to healthcare through telemedicine and tele-diagnostics. He emphasizes that ensuring network reliability is crucial to maintaining the accuracy of health tests and communication with healthcare providers, ultimately reducing stress levels. The conversation underscores how our interconnected world relies on reliable networks for essential services, even across great distances like California and Florida.

Transcript

Joe Piccirilli:
And we use the health analogies, but if you start talking to some electronics contract manufacturers, the next big push is home diagnostics, health diagnostics.

Bobby Brill:
Sure.

Joe Piccirilli:
Because it is the only way, or one of the surest ways, to bend the healthcare cost curve.

Bobby Brill:
Right.

Joe Piccirilli:
You will be able to do blood tests in your house, your own blood tests. You can do your own EKGs, and all of this stuff will be home testing equipment. Well, now, if that stuff goes down or your network goes down, now you have health risk.

Bobby Brill:
Right. Right.

Joe Piccirilli:
And the home is going to be the center of your health for a long time. Because everybody, in order to really accomplish telemedicine, you have to have tele-diagnostics. Otherwise, you’re going to be going to a lab and labs are expensive and all of that, and it doesn’t bend the cost curve.

Bobby Brill:
Right.

Joe Piccirilli:
Now, you can’t do it at the risk of the accuracy, but God forbid something is wrong. I run all these tests, and now my network’s down, and I can’t talk to my doc? Well, that certainly will lower my stress level,

Bobby Brill:
Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, the days of pigeons and messages are long gone. Everything is going to be, I mean, you brought up something very simple that we all are all taking for granted. I’m in California, you’re in Florida, and we’re talking over this magic wire.