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.
This report answers the following questions:
How can the mobile industry contribute to the adoption of wireless
technology in healthcare?
Which segments offer the best potential for wireless health monitoring
solutions?
What are the main differences and commonalities between the EU and US
markets?
Which are the general technology trends for home health monitoring
equipment?
Why has it taken so long for the healthcare sector to adopt wireless
technology?
What types of wireless health products are available on the market today?
What initiatives have been taken by the leading players in the telecom and
IT industries?
Table of Contents
List of Figures
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
