Summary
Essential research for anyone wishing to understand the market for the wireless and mobile communications infrastructure required to support next generation healthcare services.
- Bridging the gap between back office healthcare systems and ehealth devices.
- Tools needed to build a recession proof healthcare system.
- Aiding the rapid deployment of remote monitoring and diagnostic services.
- Applying ecommerce style business processes to healthcare systems.
- Making hosted electronic patient record systems accessible to ehealth providers.
- Building a framework for mobile phone based ehealth services.
The ehealth market is evolving; once characterised by small scale, single application pilots and projects it is increasingly dominated by larger multi-function systems. The type of organisation that is building and hosting ehealth services is also changing, with incumbent healthcare providers ceding market share to 'nextgen' healthcare providers. In part this evolution is being driven by the growing use of both local and wide area wireless networking. Both IT equipment vendors and mobile network operators regard healthcare as a rapidly expanding market for wireless technology and services.
Two key factors are driving the market for wireless ehealth platforms. The first is that while banks and airlines have managed to radically reduce costs by deploying technology that lets the customer carry out transactions online, healthcare providers have yet to realise similar savings by providing online heart monitoring and blood glucose checks. These types of services, which free up clinicians by automating routine tasks, are essential if we want recession-proof healthcare services.
The second factor is the need for technology that can provide a bridge between the Internet based healthcare information portals and hosted patient record systems - such as those being developed by Google and Microsoft - and ehealth service developers who have developed mobile phone based ehealth applications.
This report provides an overview of the market for wireless and mobile phone based platforms in the healthcare sector and contains profiles of key vendors along with descriptions of their products.
Who should purchase this report:-
- IT and medical device vendors.
- Wireless technology vendors.
- eHealth and healthcare providers.
- Decision makers in the public healthcare sector.
- Investors in the healthcare IT sector.
- Mobile operators.
- Companies active in the Internet search sector.
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