Wireless service providers likely will be key beneficiaries of increased spending on tele-medicine services and devices will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, says Pike & Fischer Senior Analyst Tim Deal.
The need to control health care costs, along with the development and expansion of faster wireless broadband networks, smartphones, and data compression solutions, will drive the market growth, Deal says.
Wireless applications, devices, and services solutions will account for more than 70 percent of the total market spend within five years.
Driving that spending is the economic stimulus law that President Obama signed earlier this year. That initiative includes $20 billion for health information technology, with a specific focus on electronic medical records and telemedicine, Deal says.
"We project that at least 25 percent of the $20 billion in stimulus funds earmarked for health information technology will be applied toward broadband-enabled telemedicine services such as remote patient monitoring and mobile access to medical records, and consumer applications such as interactive fitness guides and mobile health-related videos," says Deal.
AT&T will have the largest presence in this market, followed closely by Verizon and Sprint Nextel, Deal projects.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Telemedicine Spending to Approach $3.6 Billion Annually by 2014
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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