Health Care a Prime Area of M2M Interest

The health vertical is among a relative handful of industry verticals where mobile service providers tend to believe there are important opportunities for revenue growth, particularly in the area of remote telemetry. Though mobile service providers are understandably optimistic about prospects for machine-to-machine communications, health care is interesting because of its large role in many economies, rapidly rising healthcare spending and accompanying pressures to contain costs using technology. 
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Frost & Sullivan recently published a whitepaper looking at the strengths and drawbacks of four major mobile device types – smartphones, tablets, push-to-talk communication devices, and machine-to-machine (M2M) remote medical monitoring devices. Each device category is evaluated for application in three environments, including the hospital, physician’s office, and the patient’s home. Read more here.