Technology is making healthcare more personalized than ever before. From hospitals and clinics to in-home care and remote monitoring, healthcare providers are increasingly relying on the latest technologies to improve patient outcomes, streamline workflows, and expand access to care.
AI is playing an increasingly important role in this transformation. It’s being integrated into the medical devices patients wear, the software clinicians rely on, and the research tools helping accelerate the development of new treatments and cures.
At the same time, connectivity technologies such as Wi-Fi, 5G, RedCap, and connected sensors are enabling real-time data collection, monitoring, and communication across healthcare environments. These technologies enable healthcare applications to track and share key metrics like heart rate, glucose levels, and sleep, while also supporting intelligent diagnostics for personalized care.
The hardware powering connected healthcare solutions
Powering the latest AI capabilities and connectivity requires high-performance, energy-efficient silicon. MediaTek Genio SoCs enable real-time data processing for large language models (LLMs) while also efficiently processing these AI workloads. Plus, our platforms support on-device processing, enabling healthcare providers to keep sensitive information local when needed, thereby enhancing patient privacy and security.
MediaTek’s platforms also support a broad range of connectivity technologies, including 5G, Wi‑Fi 7/8, Bluetooth, and wired networking. With support for 5G and Wi-Fi 7/8, MediaTek helps enable fast data transfer and low-latency communication, enhancing patient care, optimizing hospital operations, and supporting seamless connectivity across smart medical devices. MediaTek also supports technologies such as 5G RedCap, which enables efficient, lower-power connectivity for connected devices.
In addition, the MediaTek Genio portfolio provides hardware-level security, enabling encrypted data transmission and safeguarding sensitive patient information, meeting compliance standards for healthcare environments.
MediaTek Genio also supports advanced multimedia and display capabilities, enabling interactive displays for hospital rooms, patient monitoring systems, and other healthcare environments. In addition, the platform supports high-quality video streaming and ultra-low-latency audio for applications such as telemedicine and remote collaboration.
Healthcare innovation in action
These technologies are transforming healthcare across applications ranging from smart clinical workflows and telemedicine to remote patient monitoring and AI-powered image analysis.
- Smart note-taking and data capture: To streamline workflows, healthcare providers are turning to AI-powered tools such as medical scribes and automated data capture applications for both in-office and at-home care. Healthcare providers are increasingly using smartphones and tablets built for the durability, secure connectivity, and compliance needs of healthcare environments. MediaTek is helping customers like NUU deliver mobility solutions that support a variety of connected healthcare applications.
- Telemedicine: In an effort to meet patients where they are and increase access to care for individuals in remote locations, telemedicine is becoming an increasingly important part of modern healthcare. MediaTek’s solutions support low-latency, high-definition video and AI-enhanced audio for seamless telemedicine experiences across applications such as patient engagement, virtual consultations, and remote diagnostics.
- Remote patient monitoring: Patients increasingly expect more personalized, proactive, and data-driven healthcare experiences. MediaTek powers smartwatches, wearables, and connected monitoring devices that help individuals track their key health metrics and give healthcare providers greater visibility into patient health between visits. These remote monitoring capabilities can help support earlier intervention, improve patient outcomes, reduce unnecessary in-person visits, and ease workload pressures on healthcare staff.
- AI-powered image analysis: At Embedded World 2026, MediaTek showcased some impressive healthcare solutions with our partner SECO, including an AI-powered microscope image analysis tool that assists laboratory researchers with AI-driven cell analysis. Additionally, we demonstrated an AI-powered system that can identify and package medication to improve accuracy, streamline workflows, and enhance shelf-life management.
Looking ahead
The future of healthcare will be more connected, intelligent, and data-driven than ever before. At MediaTek, we’re helping drive this future with platforms that integrate AI, have advanced connectivity, and multimedia technologies to support secure and intelligent healthcare applications across clinical, hospital, and remote care environments. It’s all part of our mission to enhance and enrich people’s lives.
Learn more about how MediaTek's IoT solutions empower patients and healthcare providers: https://www.mediatek.com/products/iot/verticals/healthcare
