Research and Markets: Patient Portals Market in Africa 2015
March 04 2015 - 11:44AM
Business Wire
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dgwqgb/patient_portals)
has announced the addition of the "Patient Portals in Africa "
report to their offering.
The African patient portal market is in its nascent stage. Most
of the providers have been developing in-house applications, which
focus only on the administrative and billing applications. The
government's prioritisation of eHealth will eventually lead to the
growth of patient portal adoption. This study takes a look at the
overall patient portal market in Africa with a detailed analysis of
the South African and Kenyan markets. It also provides the major
drivers and restraints for market growth. In addition, the
advantages of adopting patient portals are highlighted along with
the industry trends. The different types of patient portals, the
elements impacting their growth, and a brief customer analysis are
also included.
Report Highlights
- The evolution of consumer-directed healthcare has increased
the access to medical information through the Internet in which the
Health Information Technology (IT) plays a significant role.
Patient portals allow patients to engage with their doctors,
payers, and other healthcare providers over a click and also
motivates them to take a proactive role in their health.
- Patient portals can create growth by transforming
relationships between patients, physicians, and payers while
improving efficiency and lowering the cost of delivering health
care over the long term.
- Government prioritisation of eHealth and support to implement
eHealth will eventually impact the growth of patient portal
adoption.
- The providers of health care have no choice but to leverage IT
tools that consolidate health information about diagnosis,
medication, and medical care from different providers in the past
to improve clinical outcomes through enhanced decision making.
- Most of the providers in the African continent have been
developing in-house applications which focus only on the
administrative and billing applications, usually off platforms such
as Microsoft's Dot Net technology, SharePoint and other web-based
content management solutions. Few still use legacy systems.
- Collaboration among stakeholders can lead to the deployment of
patient portals across a huge patient base.
- The providers/payers in Africa do not see an urgent need for
implementing patient portals. However, they understand the value
proposition and will most likely implement it in future considering
the advantages of patient engagement.
- The strong penetration of mobile technology in Africa has been
a backbone to the development of mHealth and telemedicine, which
tend to hinder the adoption of web-based portals.
- There is a minimal existence of integrated clinical
information systems, which is one of the major silos of information
required in the back-end to implement patient portals.
- Patient portals can provide immense benefits for the treatment
and management of chronic illnesses.
- For best results, providers should look into both web-based
portals and mobile technologies to interact with their patients in
real time and meet their needs.
- mHealth has seen early adoptions rather than the web-based
portals in South Africa. There has been a predominant uptake and
usage of applications based on the iOS platform by the healthcare
provider community.
- Currently, patients are more likely to get their medical
records printed from an electronic health record (EHR) rather than
accessing it through the Internet due to inadequate awareness of
eHealth.
- Patient portals are projected to be used as extensively as
online banking is used today.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Executive Summary
2. Key Findings
3. Definitions and Scope
4. Market Overview
5. Macro Analysis
6. Stakeholder Analysis
7. Drivers and Restraints - Total Patient Portal Market for
Hospitals, Payers, and Physicians
8. Industry Trends
9. Product Segmentation
10. Patient Portals Market
11. Competitive Analysis
12. Customer Analysis
13. Customer Adoption - Trends
14. The Last Word
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http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dgwqgb/patient_portals
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