Healthcare Telecommunications: Telemedicine, the Impact of the Internet, Integration Strategies, Market Strategies, Market Opportunities, and Market Forecasts 2001-2006


May 1, 2001
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Healthcare Telecommunications Executive Summary
  • Equipment And Services Positioning
  • The Results
  • Health Care Vision
  • Summary Forecasts
  • Healthcare PBX markets
  • Hospital Routing Systems
  • Need For Integration
  • Multimedia Messaging
  • Health Care Sites
  • Voice Messaging
  • Vendor Positioning
  • PBX
  • Routers
  • Hospital Information Systems
  • EAI Integration
  • Integration Engines
  • Videoconferencing
  • ATM And Gigabit Ethernet
  • Patient Monitors
  • Ambulatory Patient Monitoring
  • Cardiac Paging Systems
  • Monitoring in the Emergency Department
  • Multiparameter Telemetry Technology
  • Purchasing Environment
  • Telemedicine Initiatives
  • Air Medical Transport

1. Healthcare Market Description

    Telecommunication Servers, Wireless Communications, Internet Data, And Videoconferencing
    1.1.1 PBX As A Communication Server
    1.1.2 Telemedicine
    1.1.3 Wireless Communications
    1.1.4 Videoconferencing
    1.1.5 Change Occurring From Circuit-Switched
    1.1.6 To Packet-Switched Technology
    1.1.6 Critical Care Patient Monitoring
    1.2 Healthcare Change
    1.2.1 Change In Routers And PBX Systems
    1.2.2 Changes In Healthcare Monitoring
    1.3 Industry Profile
    1.3.1 Hospital Markets
    1.2.1 Alternate Site Markets
    1.4 Managed Care Issues
    1.4.1 Federal Government Managed Care Policy
    1.4.2 Need To Deploy Information Technology Solutions
    1.5 Health Care Market Cost Control
    1.5.1 Group Purchasing Trends
    1.5.2 Vendor Response To Market Conditions
    1.5.3 Hospital And Surgeon Concerns
    1.5.4 Managing Costs
    1.6 Competition In Healthcare Telecommunications Markets
    1.6.1 New Model In Emergency Care
    1.7 Major Factors Driving The New Market
    1.8 Need For Health Care Web Site
    1.8.1 Brokering Supplies And Drugs
    1.8.2 IT Use of Exchanges
    1.8.3 Infrastructure
    1.8.4 Web Lifestyle
    1.8.5 Time To Market Issue
    1.8.6 Driving Traffic To The Site
    1.9 Internet
    1.9.1 Web Based Supply Chain Exchanges
    1.9.2 Exchange Infrastructure Functionality
    1.9.3 Internet Explosion
    1.10 Impact Of Communications On Healthcare
    1.11 Integrating The Hospital Communications Network
    1.11.1 Telemedicine Use Of Videoconferencing
    1.12 Internet Users
    1.12.1 Growth Of Internet Users
    1.12.2 United States Internet Users
    1.12.3 Worldwide and U.S. Internet Users
    1.12.4 Use Of Internet To Research Healthcare
    1.12.5 Internet Users by region
    1.13 Impact Of Medical Error
    1.14 Communications Bolster Effectiveness Of Emergency Treatment Centers
    1.15 Digital X-Rays Support Telemedicine
    1.16 Respiratory Therapy Network Integration
    1.17 Critical Care Monitoring
    1.17.1 Clinical Networks
    1.18 Patient Monitoring Equipment Analysis
    1.18.1 Patient Monitoring Market Segments
    1.18.2 Full Disclosure, Arrhythmia And ST Segment Analysis

2. Healthcare Telecommunications Market Forecasts

    2.1 Principal Competitive Factors
    2.2 Changing Economics In Healthcare Delivery
    2.3 Telecommunications Systems Used For Direct Connectivity
    2.4 Hospital PBX systems
    2.4.1 PBX Market Shares
    2.4.2 Regional Hospital PBX Market Shares
    2.4.3 Total Hospital PBX Market Shares
    2.4.4 Hospital PBX Regional Market Shares
    2.4.5 Total Hospital PBX Market Shares
    2.5 Hospital Voice Messaging
    2.6 Hospital Routing Systems
    2.6.1 Healthcare Regional Shares
    2.6.2 Healthcare Data Regional Market Shares by Company

3. Healthcare Communication Market Forecasts

    3.1 Need For Integration
    3.2 EAI Cross Platform And Integration Broker Market Shares
    3.3 Summary EAI Market Forecasts
    3.4 EAI Engines
    3.4.1 The Role Of EAI Engines In Driving Integration
    3.5 EAI Integration Broker Summary Market Forecasts By Industry
    3.5.1 Healthcare use of EAI
    3.6 Telemedicine / Videoconferencing
    3.6.1 Videoconferencing Market Shares
    3.6.2 Room and Group videoconferencing Systems
    3.6.3 Videoconferencing Market Forecasts
    3.7 Web Hosting
    3.7.1 Need For Web Hosting And Data Centers
    3.7.2 Web Based Supply Chain Exchanges
    3.7.3 Web Hosting Market Shares
    3.8 Web Hosting Competitive Forces
    3.9 Web Hosting Market Driving Forces
    3.10 Hospital Information Systems
    3.11 Blood Pressure Kiosks
    3.12 Paging Systems
    3.13 Air Medical Transport

4. Communications Equipment Strategic Positioning For Healthcare Markets

    4.1 Demand For Bandwidth
    4.2 PBX Systems
    4.3 Optical Network Systems
    4.3.1 DWDM
    4.3.2 DWDM Applications
    4.3.3 Optical Amplifiers
    4.3.4 Advanced Systems
    4.4 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
    4.4.1 Tunneling Remote Access
    4.4.2 VPN Target Audience
    4.4.3 VPN Technology
    4.4.4 Firewalls
    4.4.5 VPN Access Platform Implementations
    4.5 Healthcare Remote Access
    4.6 Videoconferencing

5 PBX, Router, Atm, Virtual Private Network Systems For Healthcare

    5.1 PBX Systems
    5.1.1 Nortel PBX
    5.1.2 Nortel Voice, Data, Video Network
    5.1.3 Grand Rounds On Site
    5.1.4 Siemens PBX IP Telephony Interoperability
    5.1.5 Siemens Upgrade Disaster Recovery Systems
    5.1.6 Avaya PBX
    5.1.7 NEC PBX
    5.1.8 NEC Integrated Wireless Communications /Advanced Healthcare Communications
    5.1.9 Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 Hospital PBX
    5.1.10 Ericsson PBX
    5.2 ATM
    5.2.1 Cisco
    5.2.2 Nortel ATM
    5.2.3 Nortel ATM Backbone Positioning
    5.2.4 Lucent Technologies ATM
    5.2.5 Avaya LAN ATM
    5.2.6 Ericsson ATM
    5.2.7 Siemens ATM
    5.3 Fast Ethernet And Gigabit Routers
    5.3.1 Cisco Routers
    5.3.2 The Cisco Healthcare Solution
    5.3.3 Cisco Medical Clinic Positioning
    5.3.4 Cisco Integration Systems
    5.3.5 Cisco Radiology Network
    5.3.6 Cisco Computerized Patient Records
    5.3.7 Cisco Integration Of Systems
    5.3.8 Nortel / Bay Networks Router Systems
    5.3.9 Nortel Clinical Information System Integration
    5.3.10 Nortel Ethernet
    5.3.11 Nortel Routing
    5.3.12 Avaya Routers
    5.3.13 Siemens Hinet Stackable PBX Integrated Router
    5.3.14 Alcatel Routers
    5.3.15 Ericsson Routing
    5.3.16 Ericsson IP Gateway
    5.4 Hospital Wireless Systems
    5.4.1 Avaya
    5.4.2 Avaya Wireless Features
    5.4.3 Avaya PBX Wireless Interoperability
    5.4.4 Nortel Wireless Solution
    5.4.5 Siemens Wireless
    5.4.6 Ericsson Wireless Systems Targeted To Hositals
    5.4.7 NEC
    5.5 Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
    5.5.1 Avaya Interactive Voice Response
    5.6 Paging
    5.6.1 Motorola Pagewriter[R] 2000x Personal Interactive
    Communicator Targeted To Hospital Settings
    5.6.2 Motorola Steps To Reduce Medical Errors
    5.7 Security Systems
    5.7.1 VPN For Remote Medical Services Delivery
    5.7.2 VLAN Switches Isolate User Groups
    5.7.3 Checkpoint Firewalls / Nokia Oc3
    5.7.4 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Secure Paths
    5.7.5 Cisco Extends Patient Care Through The Internet
    5.7.6 Check Point Firewall

6. Telemedicine In The Context Of Patient Monitoring And Hospital Information Systems -- Product Overview

    6.1 Automated Patient Records And Health Management Systems
    6.1.1 Cerner
    6.1.2 McKesson HBOC Health Care Information Technology
    6.1.3 Shared Medical Systems Principal Products
    6.2 Patient Monitor Systems
    6.3 Philips Telemedicine Solutions
    6.3.1 Philips Paperless Claims
    6.3.1 Philips Patient-Monitoring Solutions
    6.3.2 Philips Telemetry System
    6.3.3 Philips Ambulatory ECG Analysis
    6.3.4 Philips Component Central Monitor
    6.3.5 Philips Arrhythmia Monitoring
    6.3.6 Philips Defibrillators
    6.3.7 Philips Infusion Pumps
    6.3.8 Philips Open Systems
    6.4 Spacelabs Telemedicine Initiatives
    6.4.1 Spacelabs Web Source Telemedicine
    6.4.2 Spacelabs Integrated Patient Monitoring
    6.4.3 Spacelabs Ultraview Care Network Monitors
    6.4.4 Ultraview Modular Digital Telemetry
    6.4.5 SpaceLabs Fetal Monitors
    6.4.6 Spacelabs Monitoring Modules
    6.4.7 SpaceLabs 12-Lead ECG/ST Segment
    6.4.8 Spacelabs Multiview
    6.4.9 SpaceLabs Cardiac Output
    6.4.10 SpaceLabs Non Invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP)
    6.4.11 Spacelabs SvO2
    6.4.12 Spacelabs Pulse Oximetry
    6.4.13 Spacelabs Temperature
    6.4.14 Spacelabs Capnography
    6.4.15 Spacelabs EEG
    6.4.16 Spacelabs Bispectral Index (BIS)
    6.4.17 Spacelabs Module Configuration Manager
    6.4.18 Spacelabs Flexport System Interfaces
    6.4.19 Spacelabs Flexport Interfaces
    6.4.20 Multi Information-System Enterprise
    6.4.21 Spacelabs Patient Care Management
    6.4.22 Spacelabs Multidisciplinary Clinical Pathways
    6.4.23 Spacelabs Order Entry
    6.4.24 Spacelabs Charts For Intensive Care
    6.4.25 Spacelabs Mermaid Wireless Technology
    6.5 GTE / Marquette
    6.5.1 Marquette Clinical Information System For Obstretrical Applications
    6.5.2 Reporting System
    6.5.3 Marquette Stress Test Telemedicine Application
    6.5.4 Marquette Wireless Patient Monitor
    6.5.5 Chest Pain Center Monitoring
    6.5.6 Vital Signs Monitor
    6.5.7 Marquette Telemetry
    6.5.8 Marquette Wireless LAN
    6.5.9 Marquette Network-Centric Monitoring
    6.5.10 Marquette Telemedicine Networking Monitoring
    6.5.11 Marquette Workstations
    6.5.12 Marquette Paging Systems For Outpatient Assessment
    6.5.13 Marquette Monitoring in the Emergency Department
    6.5.14 IMPACT.wf Paging System
    6.5.15 Clinical Review Station
    6.5.16 Marquette Remote System for Viewing Patients

7. Integration Engines, Applications Systems

    7.1 Enterprise Application Integration
    7.1.1 IBM Partners For Healthcare Payer Decision Support Solutions
    7.1.2 IBM Integration Engine Product Positioning
    7.1.3 IBM MQ Integrator
    7.1.4 IBM MQSeries Message-Queuing Software
    7.1.5 Business Integration Issues
    7.1.6 New Era Of Networks / Neon
    7.1.7 Software Technologies Corporation (STC)
    7.1.8 STC DataGate
    7.1.9 GE Global Exchange
    7.1.10 Healthdyne Information (HIE)
    7.1.11 SEDI-Health
    7.2 Distributed Transaction Systems
    7.2.1 IBM Websphere
    7.2.2 BEA Tuxedo And Web Logic Span Hardware Platforms
    7.3 Application Integration Positioning
    7.3.1 SpaceLabs Integration Systems
    7.3.2 Philips
    7.3.3 Siemens SAP R/3 Patient Management System
    7.3.4 Application Integration Services
    7.3.5 Intelligent Infrastructures
    7.4 Uses And Benefits Of EAI Applications
    7.5 The Event Driven Hospital Complex
    7.5.1 Health care Platforms
    7.6 The Business Payoff

8. Applications For Telemedicine

    8.1 Videoconferencing
    8.2 Digital Video
    8.3 Telemedicine
    8.4 Mobile Multimedia Communications
    8.5 Call Centers
    8.6 Hospital Value Added Systems
    8.7 Managing A Switch Room For A Health Care Facility
    8.7.1 Disaster recovery
    8.7.2 Siemens

9. Service Provider Participation In Health Care Telecom

    9.1 Verizon
    9.2 SBC Remote-Rural Health Care Delivery
    9.3 Sprint ATM packages
    9.4 Qwest / USWest !nprise
    9.5 Hawaii Health Systems ATM
    9.6 Connecticut Hospital Association Serves As An Internet Service Provider (ISP)

10. Telemetry And Sleep Technologies Targeted To Healthcare Communications

    10.1 Electromagnetic Conflicts Managed By Motorola
    10.2 Customer Interaction System And Advanced Speech Recognition
    10.3 In-Vehicle Multimedia Solution
    10.4 Service-Level Guarantees For Internet Services
    10.5 Philips Cardiograph With Predictive Instruments
    10.5.1 Philips Coderunner Web Product Suite
    10.5.2 Philips Information-Management solution
    10.6 Spacelabs Web-Based Network
    10.6.1 Spacelabs Provides Access To Clinical Data Repository Via Wireless Devices
    10.6.2 Spacelabs Flexport System Interfaces
    10.6.3 Spacelabs Hospital-Wide Information Systems
    10.6.4 Spacelabs Executive Information Systems
    10.6.5 Spacelabs 12-Lead ECG/ST Segment
    10.6.6 Spacelabs Ultraview Digital Telemetry
    10.7 Respironics Focus Is On Home Care
    10.7.1 Respironics Non-Invasive Window To The Autonomic Nervous System.
    10.7.2 Respironics Portable Sleep Diagnostic Tool
    10.7.3 Respironics Products For Sleep Management
    10.7.4 Respironics Ambulatory Patient Monitor
    10.7.5 Protocol Cordless Telemetry System

11. Top Ten Telecommunications Company Profiles

    11.1 Alcatel
    11.1.1 Alcatel Acquisitions
    11.1.2 Alcatel Organization / Internet Division
    11.1.3 Alcatel Revenue
    11.1.4 Internet And Optics
    11.1.5 Enterprise And Consumer
    11.1.6 Telecom Components
    11.1.7 Alcatel / Newbridge Networks
    11.2 Bosch
    11.3 Cisco Systems
    11.3.1 Cisco Sales
    11.3.2 Cisco Sales Overview
    11.3.3 Acquisitions
    11.4 Ericsson
    11.4.1 Ericsson Revenue
    11.4.2 Flexible Access Products
    11.4.3 Ericsson Makes Strategic Investment In Saraïde.Com
    11.4.4 Acquisitions And Investments
    11.5 Fujitsu
    11.5.1 Fujitsu Network Communications
    11.6 Lucent
    11.6.1 Company Organization
    11.6.2 Lucent Restructuring
    11.6.3 Enterprise Products
    11.6.4 Outsourcing Portfolio
    11.6.5 Lucent Second Quarter 2000 Revenue
    11.6.6 Lucent 1999 Revenue
    11.6.7 Lucent Customer Base
    11.6.8 Lucent Acquisitions
    11.6.9 Acquisition Of Excel Switching
    11.6.10 Outsourcing Portfolio Expanded With Ins
    11.6.11 Ascend Business Segments
    11.6.12 Nexabit Networks
    11.6.13 Spring Tide
    11.6.14 Divestiture Of Enterprise And Microelectronics
    11.7 Motorola
    11.7.1 Corporate Structure
    11.7.2 Handset Products
    11.7.3 Network Systems Segment
    11.7.4 Commercial, Government And Industrial Systems Segment
    11.7.5 Motorola Wireless Strategic Alliances
    11.7.6 Motorola Customer Base
    11.7.7 Semiconductor Products Segment
    11.7.8 MIT Media Lab
    11.7.9 Internet And Networking Group
    11.7.10 Motorola Revenue
    11.7.11 Acquisitions And Liscensing
    11.7.12 Strategic Alliances
    11.7.13 Motorola Coprorate Organization
    11.7.14 Creation Of The Communications Enterprise
    11.7.15 Motorola / General Instrument Acquisition
    11.8 NEC
    11.8.1 Switching And Mobile Communications Systems
    11.8.2 Communications Systems And Equipment
    11.9 Nokia
    11.10 Nortel
    11.10.1 Strategies
    11.10.2 Lines Of Business
    11.10.3 Enterprise Solutions
    11.10.4 Service Provider And Carrier Group
    11.10.5 Nortel Revenue
    11.10.6 1999 Results
    11.10.7 Manufacturing Plants
    11.11 Siemens
    11.11.1 Siemens Revenue
    11.11.2 Siemens Information And Communications Business Group
    11.11.3 Optical Networks
    11.11.4 Integration, Services And Applications (ISA)
    11.11.5 Unisphere Solutions
    11.11.6 Fujitsu And Siemens Computer Initiatives
    11.11.7 Siemens And NEC Team For 3G Development
    11.11.8 Siemens Investments

12. Healthcare Telecommunications Company Profiles

    12.1 3M Health Information Systems
    12.2 Agilent
    12.3 Air Methods
    12.3.1 Hospital Based Vendor Contracts: Mature Industry
    12.3.2 Community Based Model
    12.3.3 Financial Performance
    12.3.4 Product Division
    12.4 Allina Health Systems
    12.5 Cerner
    12.6 Datascope
    12.6.1 Datascope Revenue
    12.7 Hewlett-Packard
    12.8 Infineon Technologies
    12.9 Intermec Technologies
    12.10 LXE
    12.11 McKesson HBOC
    12.11.1 McKesson
    12.12 NEC
    12.13 PictureTel
    12.14 Philips Electronics Medical Products
    12.15 Polycom
    12.16 Protocol Systems
    12.16.1 Portable Patient Monitors
    12.17 Respironics
    12.18 Shared Medical Systems
    12.19 Spacelabs
    12.19.1 Spacelabs Medical Revenue
    12.19.2 lifeclinic.com
    12.20 VTel

13. EAI Company Profiles

    13.1 BEA
    13.2 BMC
    13.3 Candle
    13.3.1 Messaging Middleware Management
    13.3.2 Platforms Supported
    13.3.3 Candle E-Business
    13.3.4 Candle Products
    13.3.5 Candle Service Positioning
    13.4 Catalyst International
    13.5 Commerce Quest
    13.6 Concentric Network
    13.7 Connect
    13.8 Crossworlds
    3.9 Datachannel
    13.10 Evolving Systems
    13.11 Enterprisesoft
    13.12 Extricity
    13.13 Filenet
    13.14 Financial Technologies International
    13.15 GE Medical and Global eXchange
    13.15.1 GE Capital
    13.15.2 GE Global Exchange Services
    13.16 Healthdyne Information Systems
    13.17 IBM
    13.18 Inprise!
    13.19 Integrasolv
    13.20 Intel
    13.21 Kabira Technologies
    13.22 Level8
    13.23 Logisys
    13.24 Mercator
    13.25 Microsoft
    13.26 MQSoftware
    13.27 New Era Of Networks (Neon)
    13.27.1 Customers
    13.27.2 Acquisitions
    13.27.3 Neon Revenues
    13.27.4 Strategic Relationships
    13.27.5 Neon Formatter
    13.27.6 Rules Engines
    13.27.7 IBM Agreement
    13.27.8 Direct Sales
    13.28 Netscape
    13.29 Optum
    13.30 Oshap Technologies
    13.31 Oracle
    13.32 Pivotpoint
    13.33 Powercrew
    13.34 Price Waterhouse
    13.35 Saga Systems
    13.36 SAP
    13.37 Saratoga Systems
    13.38 Software AG
    13.39 s2 systems
    13.40 STC
    13.40.1 STC Customers And Partners
    13.40.2 Products
    13.41 Sun Microsystems
    13.41.1 Forte Fusion Integration Suite
    13.42 Symantec
    13.43 S.W.I.F.T
    13.44 Talarian
    13.45 Tibco
    13.45.1 Tibco Second Fiscal Quarter 2000 Revenue
    13.45.2 Customers
    13.45.3 Strategic Partners
    13.45.4 Products
    13.45.5 Revenues
    13.46 Vignette
    13.46.1 Oberon Software
    13.46.2 Oberon Resellers
    13.47 Vitria
    13.48 Webmethods
    13.48.1 Webmethods / Active
    13.48.2 Active Software