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Baskerville Communications
Management Report May 2004
Mobile Healthcare provides unique coverage of the 4 key market areas set to radically change with the introduction of mobile technology.
Aging populations, high patient numbers and staff shortages are putting mounting pressure on health professionals across the developed world.
Increasingly, funding is being directed at implementing new, more efficient, mobile and wireless communication systems. These will enable safe and reliable, remote patient communication, information management, patient monitoring and telemedicine.
As European countries and the US start to use mobile and wireless health systems, Mobile Healthcare, a topical, insightful report from Baskerville, provides you with a clear picture of these available and developing technologies. The report critically analyses a number successful trials and clearly demonstrates the benefits, challenges and the likely outcomes of these emerging solutions.
Mobile Healthcare provides unique coverage of the 4 key market areas set to radically change with the introduction of mobile technology:
- Direct patient communication and telemedicine – What are the fundamental challenges and product limitations of patient telecommunication and what can be done to address these?
- Home healthcare delivery – gain a clear picture of the size of home healthcare markets globally and assess prerequisites and safety issues
- Hospitals – analyse the potential benefits and risks provided by mobile and wireless communication and be best placed to take advantage of new opportunities
- Emergency situations – consider how legal issues can impact on the use of new mobile technologies and how this will affect your organisation
Mobile Healthcare addresses major market issues including:
- Potential market size – discover the growth potential of mobile health products in telemedicine, home healthcare, hospitals and emergency situations
- Funding alternatives – from government funding for hospital wireless projects to third party sponsorship for patient telecommunication, assess the various alternatives available to healthcare organisations
- Health service need – understand the needs of health services in developed markets and how different mobile systems will help address these
- Security and safety issues – from the safety of home health visitors to the privacy of medical records and messages, evaluate the risks inherent to the mobile health sector and how these can be resolved
Answer these key questions
- How did the Homerton University hospital mobile patient ‘reminder’ trial perform? What lessons can be learnt from this?
- How has keypad consulting fared so far? How have security issues been addressed?
- What potential advantages could next generation networks offer to telemedicine? What key features will new mobile health products need to incorporate?
- How did the Visiting Nurses Association find costs involved in its project?
- What major benefits have been found with UK home visits and why were mobile technologies essential to this?
- How have different hospitals in the UK, Spain and Belgium used wireless technologies and what were their experiences? What lessons critical security and reliability requirements
Who should buy this report?
- Technology vendors – gain a clear picture of the potential size of the mobile health industry now and in the future and take advantage of emerging, profitable product opportunities
- Healthcare organisation buyers – examine the new technologies, how they have been used, evaluate their pros and cons and find the ones best suited for your organisations’ needs
- Industry analysts – assess the current mobile healthcare market and make accurate forecasts on its likely development
Order this report to gain a clear picture of the market for mobile health, current trials and results, challenges and profitable opportunities.
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