Moving Towards the Integration of Telehealth into Healthcare (Strategy Focus)

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