mHealth Market (Devices, Applications, Services & Therapeutics) - Global Mobile Healthcare Industry Size, Analysis, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast to 2020

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bpcfkf/mhealth_market) has announced the addition of the "mHealth Market (Devices, Applications, Services & Therapeutics) - Global Mobile Healthcare Industry Size, Analysis, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast to 2020"report to their offering.

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This market is expected to grow at a significant pace in the next seven years. This projection is backed by the fact such as due to technological advancement integration of wireless technology with the portable healthcare devices is feasible, increasing incidences of lifestyle diseases, cost and convenience factors, government initiatives, affordability of smartphones. However, weak reimbursement policies, lower adoption due to lack of accuracy and technology infancy and uncertainty in the government regulations is expected to hinder the growth rate. Moreover, untapped markets in developing economies provide a lot of growth opportunities for this market due to increase in adoption of mHealth services to control the spread of communicable as well as non-communicable diseases.

Such challenges can be very well taken by adoption of mHealth devices and services as they work irrespective of location and skilled professionals. The only mandatory requirement is the mobile access and a smartphone. This report segments the global mHealth Market on the basis of devices, services, stakeholders, and therapeutic areas. The global mHealth devices market is forecast to reach market value over $1.5 billion in 2013 from $0.8 billion in 2011. The contributory factors for this growth is high revenue generated from blood glucose meters, cardiac monitors and BP monitors in descending order. The services market is projected to grow over $6 billion by 2013 from 2011 market values of $4 billion mainly due to increase in revenues generated from monitoring and diagnostic services. In stakeholders market study mobile operators as well as device vendors will account for more than 75% of the overall market share by 2020.

The geography market assessment signifies that Europe along with North America will account for about 55% of the overall market revenue in 2013 and may reduce with growing demand in Asia Pacific region. The study also offers an updated review on the present major market player such as manufacturers of mobile medical devices, and mobile network providers; which also includes description of relevant recent developments activities. Companies profiles in this report includes Philips healthcare, Omron HealthCare Inc., Bayer Healthcare, LifeWatch, Cardionet Inc., Masimo Corporation, Sanofie, Boston Scientific, AT&T Inc., and Johnson & Johnson.

Key Topics Covered:

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

CHAPTER 3 GLOBAL MOBILE HEALTHCARE (mHEALTH) MARKET OVERVIEW

CHAPTER 4 GLOBAL MOBILE HEALTHCARE (mHEALTH) MARKET - BY DEVICES

CHAPTER 5 GLOBAL MOBILE HEALTHCARE (mHEALTH) MARKET - BY SERVICE

CHAPTER 6 GLOBAL MOBILE HEALTHCARE (mHEALTH) MARKET - BY STAKEHOLDERS

CHAPTER 7 GLOBAL MOBILE HEALTHCARE (mHEALTH) MARKET - BY THERAPEUTIC SEGMENT/SPECIALTY

CHAPTER 8 GLOBAL MOBILE HEALTHCARE (mHEALTH) MARKET - BY GEOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 9 COMPANY PROFILES

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