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Reportlinker Adds Mobile Healthcare Opportunities: Monitoring, Applications & mHealth Strategies 2010-2014


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NEW YORK, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Mobile Healthcare Opportunities: Monitoring, Applications & mHealth Strategies 2010-2014

http://www.reportlinker.com/p0191619/Mobile-Healthcare-Opportunities-Monitoring-Applications--mHealth-Strategies-2010-2014.html

This investigation into the opportunities for mobile healthcare provides a concise strategic planning tool for all players wanting to maximise revenues within the mobile healthcare market.

This unique report provides five year forecasts for public sector savings attributable to m-Health monitoring, as well the number of health monitoring events per year and service revenue from health monitoring. Other key forecasts include revenue and user forecasts from fitness and healthcare apps as well as the number of users that downloaded lifestyle and healthcare apps.

This evaluation of the mobile health sector provides detailed analysis of the remote monitoring sector as well as examining the evolution of smartphone apps and the impact of the app store model on the healthcare industry.

Key questions that the report answers:

1. How much could the public healthcare sector save through cellular remote monitoring of individuals?

2. What does the future hold for mobile healthcare applications?

3. Which m-health apps provide the best ROI for players?

4. Which operators have the most progressive outlook towards the m-Health sector?

5. Which regions will show substantial growth in mobile health monitoring revenues?

6. How much will remote monitoring in the mobile health market be worth by 2014?  

Executive Summary

ES1 Introduction

ES2 Worldwide Health Systems Today

ES3 Developments in Healthcare

ES4 mHealth Forecasts

ES5 Conclusion

1. The Worldwide Health Industry

1.1 Introduction

1.1 Healthcare System Background and Structure

1.2 Implications for mHealth

1.2 Worldwide Health Systems Today

1.2.1 Worldwide Health Employment

Figure 1.1: Distribution of Health Workers Worldwide

Table 1.1: Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa Compared

1.2.2 Implications for mHealth

Table 1.2: Which Applications will be Used Where? Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa Compared

1.2.3 Aging Populations Worldwide

1.2.4 Impact on the Healthcare Sector

1.2.5 Increase in Chronic Diseases

Figure 1.2: Prevalence of Diabetes Across OECD Countries (adults aged 20-79 years, 2010)

1.3 Developments in Healthcare

1.4 The Digitisation of Healthcare Records

1.4.1 Personal Healthcare Records

i. BlueCross

ii. Microsoft HealthVault

iii. Google Health

iv. Dossia

v. Tolven

1.5 Conclusion

2. mHealth Market Structure

2.1 Introduction

2.2 mHealth Definitions

2.3 The mHealth Story to Date

2.4 Developments in Healthcare

2.4.1 Hype or New Dawn?

2.4.2 Operator, Handset Manufacturer and Venture Capital Initiatives

2.4.2 The Smartphone App - New Route to Market?

Figure 2.1: mHealth Possibilities iPhone Connecting to LifeScan Glucose Meter

2.4.3 A Tale of Two Markets

2.4.4 M-Health's Role in Developed and Developing Markets

2.4.5 eHealth

2.5 mHealth Current Status

2.5.1 Channels to Market

Table: 2.1 Route to Market for Varying mHealth Applications

2.6 mHealth Technologies

2.6.1 mHealth Applications

2.6.2 Advanced Mobile Apps

2.6.3 The Role of Short Range Wireless Technologies in mHealth

i. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee

2.7 The Use of Cellular for mHealth

2.7.1 2G Technologies

2.7.2 3G Technologies

2.7.3 LTE

2.8 Conclusion

3. mHealth Use Cases, Drivers and Inhibitors

3.1 Introduction

3.1.1 mHealth Services

Figure 3.1: mHealth Use Cases and Their Ability to Reduce Healthcare Costs

Figure 3.2: Implementation Cost Versus Potential Return on Investment, Selected mHealth Use Cases

3.2 mHealth Use Cases

3.2.1 Educational and Information Services Using SMS

3.2.2 Voxiva's Health Message Services

3.2.3 Remote Consultations

i. Telenor Tele Doctor

ii. Grameenphone's HealthLine

3.2.4 SMS Based Appointment Reminders

i. Kaiser Permanente

3.2.5 Accessing Patient Records Using The Mobile Device

3.2.6 Health Monitoring Using Short Range Wireless Technologies

3.2.7 Health Monitoring Using Mobile Technologies

3.3 Drivers and Inhibitors

3.3.1 Drivers

3.3.2 Inhibitors

3.4 Current Trends

3.5 Recommendations

3.5.1 Cost Savings

3.5.2 mHealth's Role in Reducing UK Healthcare Costs

3.6 Conclusion

4. Remote Monitoring in the Healthcare Sector

4.1 Introduction

4.1.1 Mobile Monitoring Market Evolution

4.1.1 The Use of M2M Technologies

4.2 Remote Monitoring Systems

Figure 4.1: Sensor Applications in the Health Sector

4.2.1 Monitoring Use Cases

i. Glucose Meter

ii. Oximeter

iii. ECG (Electrocardiograph)

iv. Social Alarm Devices

4.3 ROI (Return on Investment)

4.4 Mobile Monitoring Current Status

4.5 Mobile Monitoring Methodology

Figure 4.2: M2M Healthcare Monitoring Methodology

Figure 4.3: Number of Individuals (m) That Would Benefit from Mobile Health Monitoring Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 4.1: Number of Individuals (m) That Would Benefit from Mobile Health Monitoring Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 4.2: Percentage of Individuals Using Mobile Health Monitoring Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Figure 4.4: Number of Individuals (m) using Mobile Health Monitoring per Year Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 4.3: Number of Individuals (m) using Mobile Health Monitoring per Year Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Figure 4.5: Number of Mobile Health Monitoring Events per Year (m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 4.4: Number of Mobile Health Monitoring Events per Year (m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Figure 4.6: Service Revenues from Mobile Health Monitoring ($m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 4.5: Service Revenues from Health Monitoring ($m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009- 2014

4.6.1 Health Cost Savings Attributable to Mobile Monitoring

Table 4.6: Cost to the Health Service of a Single Hospital Bed per Day ($) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Figure 4.7: Cost Savings Methodology

Table 4.7: Monitoring Cost per Individual ($) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

4.7 Scenario Based Cost Savings

4.7.1 Scenario 1: Base

Figure 4.8: Savings ($m) Attributable to Mobile Health Monitoring (Base Scenario) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 4.8: Savings ($m) Attributable to Mobile Health Monitoring (Base Scenario) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

4.7.2 Scenario 2: Optimistic

Figure 4.9: Savings ($m) Attributable to Mobile Health Monitoring (Optimistic Scenario) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 4.9: Savings ($m) Attributable to Mobile Health Monitoring (Optimistic Scenario) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

4.8 Conclusion

5. Mobile Health and the Smartphone App

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Rise of The mHealth Application

5.2.1 A Brief History of the Mobile App

5.2.2 The iPhone and The App Store

5.2.3 The Impact of the App Store

5.2.4 Medical Applications

5.3 The Smartphone App

5.3.1 New Route to Market?

5.3.2 The Role of the Third Party Sensor

5.3.3 Future iPhone Applications

5.4 Mobile Applications Forecasts

5.4.1 Apps Forecast Methodology

Figure 5.1: Apps Forecast Methodology, Revenues from Downloads

5.4.2 Mobile Users Downloading Lifestyle & Healthcare Apps

Table 5.1: Mobile Users (%) That Downloaded Lifestyle and Healthcare Applications, Regional Forecasts Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Figure 5.2: Number of Mobile Users (m) that Downloaded Lifestyle and Healthcare Applications Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 5.2: Number of Mobile Users (m) that Downloaded Lifestyle and Healthcare Applications Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

5.4.3 Fitness & Healthcare Applications Downloaded

i. Percentage of Apps Downloaded

Table 5.3: Percentage of Lifestyle and Healthcare Applications that are Fitness and Healthcare Applications Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

ii. Number of Subscribers Downloading

Figure 5.3: Number of Mobile Subscribers (m) that Downloaded Fitness and Healthcare Applications Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 5.4: Number of Mobile Subscribers (m) that Downloaded Fitness and Healthcare Applications Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

iii. Fitness & Healthcare App Download Revenues

Table 5.5: $ Price per Downloaded Fitness and Healthcare Applications Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Figure 5.4: Revenues (m) from Fitness and Healthcare Downloads Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 5.6: Revenues (m) from Fitness and Healthcare Downloads Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

5.5 Content Subscription Forecasts

5.5.1 Methodology

Figure 5.5: Methodology for Subscription Revenues, Fitness and Healthcare

5.5.2 Number of Content Subscriptions

Figure 5.6: Total Number of Content Subscriptions (m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 5.7: Total Number of Content Subscriptions (m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014 65

5.5.3 Revenues from Content Subscriptions

Figure 5.7: Revenues from Content Subscriptions ($m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 5.8: Revenues from Content Subscriptions ($m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

5.6 Total Revenue from Fitness & Health Apps

Figure 5.8: Total Revenues from Fitness and Health Apps ($) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 5.9: Total Revenues from Fitness and Health Apps ($) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009- 2014

5.7 Advanced Fitness and Healthcare Applications

Table 5.10: Percentage of Fitness and Health Apps with an External Monitoring Device Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Figure 5.9: Number of Fitness and Health Apps Downloaded with an External Monitoring Device (m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 5.11: Number of Fitness and Health Apps with an External Monitoring Device (m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Figure 5.10: Revenues Attributable to Fitness and Health Apps Downloaded with an External Monitoring Device (m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

Table 5.12: Revenues Attributable to Fitness and Health Apps with an External Monitoring Device (m) Split by 8 Key Regions 2009-2014

5.8 Conclusion

6. Profiles and Interviews

6.1 Vodafone

6.1.1 Strategic Focus

6.1.2 CSR

6.2 mHealth Alliance

6.3 EpiSurveyor

6.4 Qualcomm

Figure 6.1: Health Care Band Aid

6.5 France Telecom

6.6 O2

6.7 Research In Motion

6.8 Epocrates

6.9 Continua Health Alliance

6.10 MedApps

Figure 6.2: MedApps Remote Health Monitoring System at a Glance

6.10.1 Service Structure

6.11 CardioNet

6.11.1 How Mobile ECG Monitoring Works

6.12 LifeWatch

6.12.1 Home Sleep Testing Market

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