Integrating health and social care informatics to enable holistic health care.

Personalization of healthcare has a number of claimants, including pHealth. However, to the citizen real personalization is the delivery of integrated support services to maintain their health and well-being, particularly in times of chronic illness and frailty. The integration of health and social care support has been identified a key but challenging step in this. The pHealth community faces the choice either of reinforcing the isolation of silos of care and thus fragmentation of service, or of seeking to become a unifying agent though thoughtful and considered development of sharing of monitoring from pHealth devices.