  A worldwide increase in proportions of older people in the population poses
the challenge of managing their increasing healthcare needs within limited
resources. To achieve this many countries are interested in adopting telehealth
technology. Several shortcomings of state-of-the-art telehealth technology
constrain widespread adoption of telehealth services. We present an
ensemble-sensing framework - wHealth (short form of wireless health) for
effective delivery of telehealth services. It extracts personal health
information using sensors embedded in everyday devices and allows effective and
seamless communication between patients and clinicians. Due to the
non-stigmatizing design, ease of maintenance, simplistic interaction and
seamless intervention, our wHealth platform has the potential to enable
widespread adoption of telehealth services for managing elderly healthcare. We
discuss the key barriers and potential solutions to make the wHealth platform a
reality.
