Success stories from consumer technology - helping and saving lives

Consumer technology (CT) has a broad amount of fields of application, among which one of the most important ones is represented by healthcare and well-being. Thanks to the quick technological development of ICT, CT have become widespread throughout the citizenship, allowing one to easily self-monitor his/her physiological parameters, checking for eventually dangerous values that could require the assistance from a medical doctor or caregiver. This panel session aims at presenting some CT solutions supporting healthcare during the life cycle of an individual, from early days until later life, providing hints about some of the possible conditions representing the major threats to healthy life throughout the years.