The desire to overcome the challenges facing all healthcare systems, including pressures to increase quality of care while decreasing overall healthcare costs, has lead to a growing interest in the application of telehealth solutions.

Scope

Identifies the key segments of the telehealth market
Analyzes the different technological needs of telehealth end users
Offers insight into how vendors can improve their products

Highlights

Vendors need to understand the nuances of the telehealth market.

Different segments of the telehealth market prefer specific characteristics from their technology.

The greater trends in healthcare should influence the capabilities of telehealth.

Reasons to Purchase

Gain insight into what characteristics end users are looking for in their solutions
Identify what telehealth technology needs to be able to do to increase telehealth adoption
Understand where telehealth technology is now and where it should be in the future

Companies Mentioned:

Intermec, Inc. , Nokia Corporation , Visa International , Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Catalyst
Summary
Methodology
Analysis
- The road to widespread telehealth adoption has a number of speed bumps
- Telehealth's potential to solve current healthcare problems is driving adoption
- Widespread adoption of telehealth will be slow and painful unless a number of issues are addressed
- Understanding the nuances of telehealth will allow vendors to better target their products
- Homogeneity is not a characteristic of the telehealth market
- Clinical telehealth must facilitate the daily activities of providers
- The type of patient care needs to drive homecare telehealth solution functionality
- Wellness telehealth devices should take a consumer approach
- Telehealth solutions must meet the needs of a diverse set of end users
- Physician resistance to telehealth is a symptom of lingering technophobia
- Telehealth will change the way nurses deliver care to their patients
- Patients are looking for a personalized telehealth experience
- The support of healthcare administrators is key to increasing telehealth adoption
Actions
- Vendors should offer increasingly customized telehealth devices
- Telehealth solutions must be able to integrate with EHRs
- Vendors should package telehealth devices by specialty to create more interest
Appendix
- Abbreviations
- Extended methodology
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
List of Figures
- Figure 1: The criteria for telehealth devices varies based on market segmentation

Pharmaceutical Market Research

In Search Of Better Technologies For Telehealth (Technology Focus)