Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: The Diffusion Group (TDG Research)
Published: October 2007
Product Code: R662-61Description For Application developers, healthcare practitioners, device manufacturers, healthcare IT professionals, this report provides an insightful roadmap of this space and is essential reading if you are interested in entering the eHealth area. This report aims to provide more of a qualitative overview of this market and its drivers and inhibitors-one based on interviews with in-the-trenches industry and medical leaders.Table of Contents
- 1.0 Introduction
- 1.1 Understanding the eHealth Sector and the Role of Mobile Technology
- 1.2 The Challenges Facing Mobile eHealth
- 2.0 Methodology & Definitions
- 2.1 Methodology
- 2.2 So Just What is a "Smartphone"?
- 3.0 Overview of the eHealth Space
- 3.1 Mobile Technology & Healthcare - A Perfect Fit
- 3.2 Mobile Technology and the "Worried Well" - An Interesting Fit
- 3.3 It's All About the Applications
- 3.3.1 Reference Applications
- 3.3.2 Workflow and Communications Applications
- 3.3.3 Electronic Health Records (EHR) Applications
- 3.3.4 The Bottom Line
- 4.0 The Carrier Perspective on Mobile eHealth
- 4.1 The Emergence of High-Speed Wireless Wide Area Networks
- 4.2 The Wi-Fi/Cellular Chasm
- 4.3 Partnership Potential
- 4.4 Future for Mobile Carriers
- 4.4.1 Expanding Rollout of Advanced Mobile Networks & Services
- 5.0 Device Manufacturers Stake Healthcare Turf
- 5.1 Palm
- 5.2 Research-in-Motion (RIM)
- 5.3 Motorola
- 6.0 Key Opportunities
- 6.1 Understanding the Four Pillars of Healthcare Applications
- 6.2 Explicating the Four Pillars
- 6.2.1 Reference Applications
- 6.2.2 Contextual Knowledge
- 6.2.3 Workflow
- 6.2.4 Charge Capture as Area of Workflow Opportunity
- 6.2.5 Global Integrated Communications
- 6.2.6 Customized Workflow/Communication Applications
- 7.0 Key Obstacles
- 7.1 Enterprise IT Challenges
- 7.2 Mobile Device Use at the Point of Care - A Danger to the Patient?
- 8.0 Emerging Trends
- 8.1 Multimedia Applications
- 8.2 Consumer Monitoring Applications
- 9.0 Forecasting Smartphone Adoption Among Physicians
- 10.0 Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways
- 10.1 The Evolution to Mobile Workflow Tools
- 10.2 Factors Driving the Mobile Health Ecosystem
- 10.3 The Real Opportunity - Unified Management
- 10.4 Key Takeaways
- Appendix A. Key Companies Mentioned in this Report
- List of Figures
- Figure 1 The eHealth Ecosystem
- Figure 2 Challenges Driving eHealth Applications
- Figure 3 The Four Pillars of the Healthcare Smartphone Application Space
- Figure 4 Active Physicians in the U.S. (2006 thru 2011)
- Figure 5 U.S. Physicians with Smartphones (2006 thru 2011)
- Figure 6 Smartphone Penetration among Active U.S. Physicians(2006-2011)
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