Table of Contents
- DATAMONITOR VIEW
- CATALYST
- SUMMARY
- METHODOLOGY
- ANALYSIS
- The road to widespread telehealth adoption has a number of speed bumps
- Telehealth' s potential to solve current healthcare problems is driving
adoption
- Widespread adoption of telehealth will be slow and painful unless a
number of issues are addressed
- Moving towards effectively integrating telehealth into healthcare
- The telehealth market is increasing rapidly despite its limited focus
- North America leads the world in telehealth adoption
- The homecare market has already surpassed the clinical market
- Telehealth use is currently fragmented rather than widespread
- Transforming telehealth requires changes from vendors, providers and
patients
- Today' s telehealth is separate from the rest of healthcare
- Telehealth devices satisfy an audience with low expectations
- Tomorrow' s telehealth will be integrated, consumer-driven and mobile
- Vendors will drive the transformation process by improving telehealth
technology and educating its users
- Vendors should lead the redesign of healthcare providers' workflow
- Telehealth vendors need to continue to invest in clinical research
- Vendors must show that they are paying attention to their end-users
by creating custom devices
- ACTIONS
- Telehealth devices should be marketed directly to the final consumers:
patients
- Vendors need to view telehealth as one piece in the larger healthcare IT
puzzle
- Telehealth vendors must focus on obtaining physician buy-in
- APPENDIX
- Abbreviations
- Extended methodology
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: More respondents in North America are implementing
telehealth solutions
- Figure 2: Telehealth Spending in the US through 2012 (Millions US$)
- Figure 3: Adoption Rates of Telehealth in Various Areas of Healthcare
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