Tele-Health Carts, Servers, and Monitoring Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018Tele-Health Carts, Servers, and Monitoring: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts (December 11, 2012) - WinterGreen Research announces
that it has a new study on Tele-Health Carts, Servers, and Monitoring Market
Shares and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012-2018. The 2012 study has 366 pages, 111
tables and figures. Tele-health improves treatment of chronic disease, reduces
cost of care delivery, lets baby boomers age gracefully in their homes. Tele
monitoring is evolving more sophisticated ways of monitoring vital signs in
the home, thus protecting people in a familiar, comfortable environment. The
improvements in care delivery relate to leveraging large information sources
that permit understanding what care works for what conditions.
Tele-health systems server markets are anticipated to grow because they
represent a way to steer patients with a particular clinician to those most
expert in treating that particular condition. Tele-health is not yet to the
point where it is able to be used effectively to implement changes that
represent significant improvements in overall healthcare delivery, they are
largely confined to being used in the treatment of chronic conditions.
The aim of tele-health systems that will grow markets significantly is if the
tele-health is used to prevent the onset of chronic conditions of CHF and
diabetes through interventional medicine, wellness programs, and simply
intelligent nutrition and exercise programs implementation. Is this the task
of the hospitals? Or, are well ness programs meant to be implemented
elsewhere? In any case, tele-health represents the delivery mechanism for the
programs.
Statins have a warning label that indicates that patients who take these drugs
risk mental deterioration and diabetes. Is this what we want for our people?
Or are there wellness programs that provide alternatives. These are issues
confronting hospitals, physicians, clinicians, big pharma, and patients
everywhere. We are all patients; the task is to figure out good tele-health
systems that work to implement wellness programs before the onset of chronic
conditions.
Under this scenario, the local physician and specialist becomes the expert in
ordering the correct diagnostic tests, not just any test they can think of,
but a proper test that is recommended by the expert systems and by the expert
clinician. In this manner the out of control testing costs in the US can be
controlled. There will need to be some law changes, there will need to be some
adoption of protections for the expert doctors, but when decisions are backed
by standards of care instantiated as tele health servers we begin to have a
rational, very effective health care delivery system.
Use of tele-health systems in the treatment of chronic conditions is
important. 90% of the cost of care delivery is tied up in the treatment of
chronic conditions. A large percentage of the tele-monitoring servers was sold
in the U.S., where the VA system did home monitoring of 92,000 patients in
2012. Tele-health equipment shipments are anticipated to grow rapidly
worldwide as efficiencies of scale are realized for monitoring and treating
people with chronic conditions in a more standardized manner that addresses
the particular combinations and clusters of conditions any one patient
presents.
Tele-health systems rely on monitors with integrated connectivity. Systems use
monitoring hubs with integrated cellular capability and carts that permit
remote diagnosis for places where there is a shortage of good doctors and
where people want second opinions from a trusted expert. A physician that sees
hundreds of patients a week with a certain condition is more apt to render an
accurate diagnosis and to provide effective treatment than a physician that
only sees that condition once a year.
The only way to connect patients with a particular condition with a clinician
expert in treating that condition is through telemedicine. Everyone knows that
a surgeon who operates within a particular specialty every day is more expert
than one who operates only once a year. The same is true across the board for
all specialties.
Systems like the Bosch health management programs with evidence-based
guidelines are great in this context. These evidence based systems can be used
to keep physicians and clinicians focused on the most significant part of the
condition being treated.
IBM Watson is similarly great in the context of connecting expert clinicians
with patients presenting a certain combination of symptoms. This type of care
delivery represents significant change, but it is change for the better, it is
lower cost care delivery with higher quality of care. Watson or competing
computing systems have the potential to be incredibly useful in this context.
Because Watson and other cognitive computing systems can recognize clusters of
symptoms in a particular patient, these types of systems are potentially
useful in guiding patients to the care delivery clinician that is most likely
to be able to recognize the best treatment and to provide the recommendation
ot other clinicians as to what will be the highest level of effective care for
the least cost.
The aim of tele-monitoring is to improve patient compliance with standards of
care known to support improved outcomes for patients with chronic conditions.
Tele-monitoring is one way to improve patient compliance, but there are other
ways to achieve that as well.
Tele-monitoring increases patient compliance. The aim is to improve the
delivery of healthcare to clients by monitoring vital signs to detect changes
in patient condition that may indicate the onset of a more serious event, much
as nurses in the hospital monitor patient vital signs.
According to Susan Eustis, the principal author of the study, "The advantage
of telemonitoring is that it increases patient compliance. It brings expert
medicine into the home and attempts to present it in manner patients can hear.
The aim is to improve the delivery of healthcare to clients by performing
medical exams remotely and monitoring vital signs to detect changes in patient
condition that may indicate the onset of a more serious event, much as nurses
in the hospital monitor patient vital signs for the purpose of permitting
sophisticated care delivery."
Tele-health equipment units decrease the cost of care delivery while improving
the quality of care and the quality of lifestyle available to patients. They
have been widely adopted and extremely successful in use by the veterans
administration in the US and by CMS Medicare and Medicaid. Use is anticipated
to be extended to a wide variety of care delivery organizations based on this
base of installed systems. Healthcare delivery is an increasing concern
worldwide. Markets for the carts and associated servers segment of the market
at $98 million in the first three quarters of 2012 are anticipated to
reach$1.4 billion by 2018.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
TELE-HEALTH EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ES-1
Tele-Health Market Driving Forces
Measures of Tele Monitoring Effectiveness
Real-Time Monitoring Of Physiological Data
Home Patient Monitoring Supports Patient Education
Tele-Health Market Shares
GlobalMed
GlobalMed Telemedicine Services
Tele-Monitor Market Shares
Tele-health Systems Forecasts
Watson
1. TELE-HEALTH MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS
1.1 TeleHealth Payor Solutions
1.1.1 Telemedicine Products | Medical Technology
1.2 Mobile Brings Healthcare Transformation
1.3 Consumer Tele-health
1.3.1 Internet Health Products
1.3.2 VA Tele-health Lauded As Model Healthcare Program
1.4 US National Prevention Council
1.4.1 UK National Health Service (NHS)
1.4.2 U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
1.4.3 Chronic Disease Issues
1.4.4 Maximize The Impact Of Technology on Tele-health
1.4.5 Telehealth Reimbursement Set to Grow
1.5 IBM Watson
1.6 Issues in International Health Policy
2. TELE-HEALTH MARKET SHARES AND FORECASTS
2.1 Tele-Health Market Driving Forces
2.1.1 Measures of Tele Monitoring Effectiveness
2.1.2 Real-Time Monitoring Of Physiological Data
2.1.3 Home Patient Monitoring Supports Patient Education
2.2 Tele-Health Market Shares
2.2.1 GlobalMed
2.2.2 GlobalMed Telemedicine Services
2.2.3 Tele-Monitor Market Shares
2.2.4 Bosch 2-15
2.3 Tele-health Systems Forecasts
2.3.1 Tele-health Device Market Thriving
2.3.2 Tele-health Issues
2.4 Wireless Tele-monitoring Devices
2.4.1 Smart Phone Home Tele Monitoring
2.4.2 eICUs2-25
2.4.3 Rapid Readmissions
2.4.4 Tele-health Originating Site Facility Fee Payment Amount Update
2-27
2.4.5 Technical Correction to Include Emergency Department Tele-health
Consultations in Regulation
2.5 Watson
2.5.1 Tele-health IBM Watson, Honeywell, Vitarian, and Bosch Diagnostic
Support Expert Systems
2.5.2 Tele-health Market Forces
2.5.3 UK National Health Service (NHS)
2.5.4 U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
2.5.5 Measures of Tele Monitoring Effectiveness
2.5.6 Home Patient Monitoring Supports Patient Education
Figure 5-2 Centerstone Research Institute Telehealth
Figure 5-3 Kaiser Thrive Campaign
Table 5-4 Kaiser Services
Table 5-5 Mayo Clinic Services
Figure 5-6 Medullan Services
Figure 5-7
Tele-Health Carts, Servers, and Monitoring Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018Tele-Health Carts, Servers, and Monitoring: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018 published by WinterGreen Research, Inc. in December 11, 2012. This report consists of 366 Pages and the price starts from US $ 3700.
