LONDON, May 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WinterGreen Research
announces that it has published a new study Push Telecommunications
for Tele-Medicine (PTT) and M-Health: Market Shares, Strategy, and
Forecasts, Worldwide, 2015 to 2021. The 2015 study has 815 pages,
259 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve
significant growth as the push systems are used inside telemedicine
systems and m-health apps to move patient and clinician
communication in a secure manner to and from the person or
clinician that needs the healthcare information. Telecommunications
initiatives are being implemented with handset and tablet
communications for all patients and clinicians.
Tele-medicine and M-health market driving forces relate to people
taking more responsibility for their own health. Tele-medicine and
m-health contribute to healthcare delivery in the home and office.
M-health, delivered over the smart phone and tablet, comes in the
form of apps. Tele-medicine is evolving toward smart phone device
delivery as well.
The cost of tele-medicine for the US veterans administration is
$1,630 per patient per annum. This is
substantially less than skilled nursing facility programs and
nursing home care which cots $100,000
per annum. VHA's positive experience with enterprise-wide home
tele-medicine implementation is driving adoption by hospitals
everywhere. Telemedicine is an appropriate and cost-effective way
of managing chronic care patients in both urban and rural
settings.
The tele-medicine adoption rate is growing. Cost of care delivery
has become a major concern worldwide as the population ages. Mobile
phone apps and remote telemedicine equipment are driving increased
adoption, growing adoption rates. Concerns regarding the efficacy
of care through use of tele-medicine in healthcare industry have
alleviated. Reimbursement is being made available for clinicians
for the use of tele-medicine.
Patients are being encouraged to take more responsibility for their
own care. Technology is bringing change. People have more accurate
information available to themselves. The current situation is
impacted by the very high proportion medical spending that is
directed to treatment of chronic disease. A second aspect is that
chronic conditions are best controlled by interventions on a daily
basis with a trusted nurse monitoring and measuring outcomes of
various situations.
The tele-monitors integrates with the management suites to empower
care providers within healthcare systems, physician offices, or
home health agencies with web-enabled, on-demand access to this
configurable device. Wireless connectivity with a broad range of
peripheral devices supports patients with a variety of the needs
and risk factors.
Medical consultation systems to allow healthcare providers to
remotely monitor patients around-the-clock. Voice-enabled,
disease-specific symptom management (DSSM) questions are part of
the system. Protocols (include multi-level questions. Multilevel
questions sets can be triggered by yes or no answers.
This level of granularity enables care providers to telemonitor
patients with chronic diseases. Disease conditions monitored
include hypertension, COPD, CHF, and diabetes. Honeywell network of
remote patient monitors consists of 70,000 installed units. This is
a significant installed base. Honeywell offers a complete and
flexible telemonitoring system. Accurate vital signs collection is
improved with clear auditory and visual cues to the patient.
This study deals with three separate related markets. Telemedicine
is the tracking and monitoring of chronic disease. Vital signs and
advice are core parts of the business. M-health is a separate
business related to the development of apps that are providing
monitoring through smart phones and tables, and are providing
wellness applications. Tele-health is a related market. In
tele-health, companies, enterprises, and insurers contract with a
services provider to be available on the telephone to help people
deal with a virus, an infection, poison ivy, pink eye, and common
disease conditions that can be managed with telephone or video
communications.
M-Health relates to apps. The app helps healthcare providers meet
patients where they are, enabling just-in-time patient education
and care coaching through the power of the mHealth. Health Groups
are evolving worldwide leadership positions in mobile health
systems with millions using its mobile health applications on iOS
and Android, enjoying the personal and family benefits of being led
to live a more active, healthier lifestyle.
Push telecommunications for tele-medicine (PTT) and M-health
supports custom messaging from patients on a daily basis. Messaging
is a feature of the Bosch Health Buddy System and other leading
telemedicine systems. The systems rely on content programs that are
tailored to patient conditions and involve questionnaires tailored
to the chronic condition in the case of patients with those types
of disease conditions.
With chronic disease telemedicine systems, content is pushed out to
the patient on a custom basis, addressing changes in patient
condition. Content varying is implemented each day to assess
different key aspects of care and to keep the experience fresh for
patients. The custom messaging feature enables care providers to
send customized notifications to specific patients or their entire
population with the click of one button. Messages appear on the
patient's device display on their next session, and are archived
and audited by the system, allowing the care provider to track when
patients receive and view their messages.
In the case of remote presence telemedicine systems and video
conferencing systems, the care giver needs to have access to the
patient record. In the long term, this will be how the systems all
work, that the physician talking to the patient has the ability to
see the test results and the patient history.
There is strong market growth in all segments, but the most
dramatic is in the smart phone apps segment. Electronic personal
monitoring and profiling of healthy behaviors will grow
dramatically. The unprecedented availability of sensors that detect
sleep patterns, exercise patterns, and correlate these with vital
signs monitoring is bringing a huge change to living.
Just as sports clubs have created a way for people to exercise
instead of going to the bar, so also smart phones will encourage
healthy behaviors. The information gathered will make its way into
the electronic patient record, feeding ways for physicians to
encourage compliance. Apps at $.99
each will predominate, linking to cognitive computing systems in
the cloud.
The analytical capabilities of cognitive computers help people make
sense of the accumulated information about lifestyle and will help
people make more intelligent choices about lifestyle. Tele-medicine
device and software companies recognize that their revenue stream
will come from services delivery. Just as smart phones are paid for
in conjunction with the services contracts, so also the
tele-medicine applications are paid by insurance.
In some cases the insurance companies recognize that their long
term costs are lower by delivering clinical intervention to try to
impact lifestyle for patients with chronic disease conditions.
Early intervention is dramatically less expensive than a trip to
the emergency ward. (ER)
IBM Watson cognitive computing drives the M-health market with its
cloud computing analytics available to a number of market
participants. Healthcare patient, physician, and facility decision
support markets are forecast based on the broad availability of
smartphones combined with the IBM Watson technology that promises
to revolutionize care delivery for every healthcare venue.
Watson offers Interactive Care Insights for Oncology. The cognitive
systems use insights gleaned from the deep experience of Memorial
Sloan-Kettering and Massachusetts General Hospital clinicians.
Watson is positioned to permit clinicians to provide individualized
treatment. More options are based on patient medical information.
IBM Watson in combination with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center has information that represents the synthesis of a vast
array of updated and vetted treatment. It is able to compute
individual treatment guidelines. This represents a revolution in
cancer treatment care and presages a major revolution in all
healthcare treatment and diagnosis.
Teladoc, Inc. provides telehealth services in the United States. It has a stable of doctors
that perform diagnoses, recommend treatment, and prescribe
medication for various medical issues, including cold and flu
symptoms, bronchitis, allergies, poison ivy, pink eye, urinary
tract infection, respiratory infection, sinus problems, ear
infection, and more.
Teladoc is the largest telehealth provider in the nation, founded
in 2002. Teladoc provides 24/7/365 access to U.S board-certified
doctors. Telehealth services are available when needed. Teladoc is
the nation's leading telehealth provider with 10 million members
and 300,000-plus consults annually. Teladoc provides 24/7 access to
affordable, high-quality medical care for adults and children
experiencing non-emergency medical issues via phone, secure online
video, mobile app or HealthSpotâ„¢
Station – a private, walk-in kiosk. Through a directly-managed
network of U.S.-based, board-certified physicians, Teladoc delivers
a 95 percent patient satisfaction rate with an average response
time of eight minutes.
Teladoc client EMC Corporation Teledoc works closely with the
Director of Benefits to leverage telemedicine services for
employees. Telemedicine is offered as part of benefits packages.
Teledoc provides employees with greater access to convenient, high
quality medical care.
Worldwide Tele-medicine and M-health PTT push market driving forces
relate to the improved effectiveness of remote communications in
all industries. An clinical reimbursement addressing mobile health
initiative for chronic conditions. This trend promises to become
prevalent as people learn how to keep themselves healthier. Healthy
behaviors such as exercise, good diet and stress management have
the potential to reverse aging on a molecular level and partly
restore the vitality of a person's cells.
Healthy lifestyle choices can increase the length of DNA sequences
found at the end of a person's chromosomes. This shift toward
wellness has stimulated the need for better communication between
clinicians and patients. New sensor technology creates the
opportunity for monitoring and for alerts to be send to and from at
risk people who are exercising.
PTT telemedicine markets are poised to achieve significant growth
as the existing telemedicine systems merge with the smart phone
systems of engagement to provide a way to improve clinical care
delivery to patients with chronic disease, decreasing
hospitalizations and visits to the emergency room. There is a
convergence of telemedicine and m-health as the patients become
more responsible for their own care delivery and their own
health.
According to Susan Eustis, lead
author of the WinterGreen Research team that prepared the
telemedicine market research study, "Push technology for
telemedicine (PTT) is evolving large new markets. Markets are
evolving as smart phone devices find more uses. Differential
diagnostic tools and significant improvements in monitoring support
differential tele-medical treatment. The decision process takes
into account clinical findings from home monitoring devices and
from symptoms verbally communicated in a clinical services
implementation."
Tele-medicine, telehealth, and m-health contribute to healthcare
delivery. M-health will surely be delivered over the smart phone
and tablets. Tele-medicine is evolving toward smart phone device
delivery as well. The cost of tele-medicine is substantially less
than other NIC programs and nursing home care. VHA's experience is
that an enterprise-wide home tele-medicine implementation is an
appropriate and cost-effective way of managing chronic care
patients in both urban and rural settings.
Chronic disease conditions are best treated early on when there is
a change in patient condition and an early intervention can make a
difference. It is even better to treat them in a wellness treatment
environment before there are indications of chronic disease, before
symptoms develop, by addressing lifestyle issues early on.
Telemedicine, telehealth, and M-health markets at $1.5 billion in 2014 are anticipated to reach
$45.4 billion by 2021. M-Health
markets related to telemedicine will grow the fastest, leveraging
9.5 billion smart phones and 5 billion connected tablet devices
installed all over the world by 2021.
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