Mobile Healthcare: Markets and Trends for M-health Applications

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• Mobile healthcare: what and why?
• The healthcare sector as a target enterprise market for mobile operators
• Key barriers to the mobile healthcare market .
• Summary conclusions

CHAPTER 2

• MOBILE HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM
• Defining terms
• What is mobile healthcare?
  • Figure 2.1: Principal m-health categories .
• Trends in mobile healthcare
• General conclusions
• Global operator trends
• Emerging trends
• General conclusions
• Content and applications
• Emerging trends
• General conclusions
• Mobile devices and technology
• Emerging trends
• General conclusions
• Mobile healthcare value chain
  • Figure 2.2: Mobile healthcare value chain
  • Figure 2.3: Examples of members of the mobile healthcare value chain

CHAPTER 3

• GLOBA MOBILE OPERATOR TRENDS
• Key points
• Market status
• Vodafone
• France Telecom
• Telefonica
• Telecom Italia
• Sprint Nextel
• Verizon Wireless
• AT&T Mobility
• Bharti Airtel
• SingTel
• Telstra
• Background
• Market drivers
• Market barriers
• Conclusions

CHAPTER 4

• M-HEALTH CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS TRENDS
• Key points
• Market status
• General categories and trends
  • Figure 4.1: M-health application categories
• Deployment trends
  • Figure 4.2: M-health applications: geographical trends
• Key players
• Background
• Information/communication m-health applications
  • General overview
  • Trends
• Monitoring m-health applications
  • General overview
  • Trends
• Surveillance m-health applications
  • General overview
  • Trends
• Diagnostic m-health applications
  • General overview
  • Trends
• Market drivers
• Market barriers
• Conclusions

CHAPTER 5

• M-HEALTH DEVICES AND TECHNOLOGY
• Key points
• Market status
  • Figure 5.1: M-health device types
• Market size for monitoring devices
• Background
  • Figure 5.2: Devices and technologies used in m-health, by location where used
• In the hospital
• In the field
• In the home
  • Figure 5.3: Telefonica Sensor Network Infrastructure
• Market drivers
• Market barriers
• Conclusions

CHAPTER 6

• HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
• OVERVIEW
  • Figure 6.1: Summary of healthcare system types and m-health trends
• Public healthcare markets
• What are public healthcare markets?
• M-health trends in public healthcare markets
• Private healthcare markets
• What are private healthcare markets?
• M-health trends in private healthcare markets
• Unfunded healthcare markets
• What are unfunded healthcare markets?
• M-health trends in unfunded healthcare markets: Africa
  • Kiwanja case study
  • Ericsson case study

CHAPTER 7

• MOBILE HEALTHCARE IN A PUBLICLY-FUNDED MARKET: THE UK' S NHS
• Key points
• Market status
• Telecommunications services
• Asset-tracking and lone worker protection services
• Remote monitoring services
• Background
• Market drivers
  • Figure 7.1: Key m-health market drivers .
• Market barriers
  • Figure 7.2: Key m-health market barriers
• Conclusions

CHAPTER 8

• MOBILE HEALTHCARE IN A PRIVATELY-FUNDED MARKET: THE US
• Key points
• Market status
• Operator overview
• Mobile billing
• Asset tracking
• Vendors
• Health information management services
• Market adoption
• Background
• Market drivers
  • Figure 8.1: Key m-health market drivers .
• Market barriers
  • Figure 8.2: Key m-health market barriers
• Conclusions

APPENDIX

• Selected mobile healthcare applications