High Growth Forecasted for the Wireless Monitoring in Home Healthcare

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Wireless Monitoring In Home Healthcare

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Wireless Monitoring in Home Healthcare gives first-hand insights into the adoption of wireless solutions for health monitoring.

This strategic research report from Berg Insight provides you with a comprehensive analysis of the current trends on the market and offers advice on how to foster further growth.

This report will allow you to:

• Understand the dynamics of the health monitoring market in Europe and North America.
• Comprehend how the use of wireless technology could improve the monitoring of cardiac activity, blood pressure, glucose levels and lipid levels.
• Evaluate the business opportunities for mobile industry players in home healthcare.
• Identify key players on the health monitoring market.
• Predict future market and technology developments.

Executive summary

1 The challenge from welfare diseases

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Common chronic welfare diseases

1.2.1 Cardiac arrhythmia

1.2.2 Hypertension

1.2.3 Diabetes

1.2.4 Hyperlipidemia

1.3 Healthcare providers and reimbursement systems by market

1.3.1 Healthcare in Europe

1.3.2 Healthcare in the US and Canada

1.3.3 Healthcare in Asia and Australia

2 Home healthcare monitoring

2.1 Cardiac monitoring

2.2 Blood pressure monitoring

2.3 Glucose monitoring

2.4 Lipid monitoring

2.5 Technology trends in health monitoring

2.5.1 Going digital, going wireless

2.5.2 Dedicated PDAs vs general devices

2.5.3 Outsourcing of health monitoring

2.5.4 Distance disease management

2.5.5 Frequency and volume of data to transfer

2.5.6 eHealth and telemedicine

2.6 Regulatory environment

2.6.1 Regulatory environment in Europe

2.6.2 Regulatory environment in the US

2.6.3 Regulatory environment on other major markets

2.6.4 International standardization

3 Healthcare monitoring solution providers

3.1 Cardiac monitoring vendors

3.1.1 CardioNet

3.1.2 Card Guard

3.1.3 Philips Healthcare and Raytel Cardiac Services

3.1.4 Aerotel

3.1.5 Kiwok

3.1.6 Medtronic

3.1.7 SHL Telemedicine

3.1.8 Transoma Medical

3.1.9 T Z Medical

3.2 Blood pressure monitoring vendors

3.2.1 Omron Healthcare

3.2.2 A&D Medical

3.2.3 AViTA

3.2.4 Honeywell Hommed

3.2.5 HoMedics

3.2.6 IEM

3.2.7 Microlife

3.2.8 Vitaphone

3.3 Glucose level monitoring vendors

3.3.1 Roche

3.3.2 Johnson & Johnson

3.3.3 Abbott Laboratories

3.3.4 Bayer Healthcare

3.3.5 BodyTel

3.3.6 Dexcom

3.3.7 HealthPia America

3.3.8 Smith’s Medical

3.4 Lipid monitoring vendors

3.4.1 CardioChek

3.4.2 Biomedix

3.5 Other companies

3.5.1 Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare

3.5.2 iMetrikus

3.5.3 RTX Healthcare

3.5.4 Viterion TeleHealthcare

3.5.5 T+ Medical

4 Telecom and IT industry initiatives

4.1 Telecom operators

4.1.1 France Telecom creates Orange Healthcare business unit

4.1.2 Telecom Italia invests in Telbios

4.1.3 SaskTel first to launch Alcatel-Lucent’s LifeStat

4.1.4 Vodafone Spain pilots Aerotel’s e-CliniQ system

4.1.5 Qualcomm plans Lifecomm health-oriented MVNO

4.1.6 Deutsche Telekom’s T-City project

4.1.7 NTT DoCoMo introduces health-oriented handsets

4.2 Handset manufacturers

4.2.1 Nokia and Apple to make smartphones health applications platforms?

4.2.2 LG Electronics to introduce handset with blood pressure meter

4.3 IT companies

4.3.1 Google Health

4.3.2 Microsoft HealthVault

4.3.3 Intel Health Guide

4.4 Industry associations

4.4.1 Continua Health Alliance

4.4.2 The Bluetooth SIG's Medical Working Group

5 Market trends and recommendations

5.1 Market analysis

5.2 Market drivers and challenges

5.2.1 An aging population

5.2.2 Increasing welfare disease prevalence

5.2.3 Focus on disease prevention

5.2.4 Risks related to alternative treatments

5.3 Potential market catalysts

5.3.1 Increased monitoring during clinical trials

5.3.2 Insurance companies demanding monitoring

5.3.3 Non-prescribed monitoring

5.4 Recommendations for mobile industry players

Glossary

Index

List of Figures

Figure 1.1: Number of people suffering from chronic welfare diseases (EU/US 2008)

Figure 1.2: Percentage of population diagnosed with chronic welfare diseases

Figure 1.3: Healthcare expenditure per capita by country (US$, World 2005)

Figure 1.4: Share of population covered by private health insurance by country

Figure 2.1: Schematic overiview of remote ECG monitoring

Figure 2.2: Example of blood pressure monitor from Omron Healthcare

Figure 2.3: Example of glucose meters from Lifescan and Roche

Figure 2.4: Examples of methods for uploading health monitor data

Figure 3.1: Home medical monitoring market value by segment (World 2007)

Figure 3.2: Examples of telehealth monitoring equipment for the home

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