mHealth and Home Monitoring

Published by: Berg Insight

Published: Sep. 1, 2009

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Executive summary

1 The challenge from welfare diseases

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Common chronic diseases

1.2.1 Cardiac arrhythmia

1.2.2 Hypertension

1.2.3 Ischemic diseases

1.2.4 Sleep apnea

1.2.5 Chronic respiratory diseases

1.2.6 Diabetes

1.2.7 Hyperlipidemia

1.3 Healthcare providers and reimbursement systems by market

1.3.1 Healthcare in Europe

1.3.2 Healthcare in the US and Canada

1.3.3 Healthcare in Asia and Australia

2 Home healthcare monitoring

2.1 Medical monitoring

2.1.1 Cardiac monitoring

2.1.2 Blood pressure monitoring

2.1.3 Blood coagulation monitoring

2.1.4 Sleep monitoring

2.1.5 Blood oxygen level monitoring

2.1.6 Breath monitoring

2.1.7 Glucose monitoring

2.1.8 Lipid monitoring

2.2 Technology trends in health monitoring

2.2.1 Going digital, going wireless

2.2.2 Dedicated PDAs vs general devices

2.2.3 Outsourcing of health monitoring

2.2.4 Distance disease management

2.2.5 Frequency and volume of data to transfer

2.2.6 eHealth, mHealth and telemedicine

2.3 Regulatory environment

2.3.1 Regulatory environment in Europe

2.3.2 Regulatory environment in the US

2.3.3 Regulatory environment on other major markets

2.3.4 International standardization

3 Physiological monitoring solution providers

3.1 Cardiac monitoring

3.1.1 CardioNet

3.1.2 LifeWatch (formerly Card Guard)

3.1.3 Philips Healthcare

3.1.4 Aerotel

3.1.5 BioWatch Medical

3.1.6 Boston Scientific

3.1.7 Corventis

3.1.8 eCardio

3.1.9 Kiwok

3.1.10 Medtronic

3.1.11 Polar Electro

3.1.12 SHL Telemedicine

3.1.13 Sorin Group

3.1.14 St Jude

3.1.15 Transoma Medical

3.1.16 Vitaphone

3.2 Blood pressure monitoring

3.2.1 Omron Healthcare

3.2.2 A&D Medical

3.2.3 Microlife

3.2.4 AViTA

3.2.5 Graham Fields Health Products

3.2.6 Honeywell Hommed

3.2.7 IEM

3.2.8 Medisana

3.2.9 Rossmax

3.3 Coagulation monitoring

3.3.1 Inverness Medical Innovations

3.3.2 Thoratec

3.4 Sleep monitoring

3.4.1 ResMed

3.4.2 CareFusion

3.4.3 AdActive

3.4.4 BiancaMed

3.4.5 Cadwell

3.4.6 CleveMed

3.4.7 Embla

3.4.8 Kai Sensors

3.4.9 Grass Technologies

3.5 Blood oxygen monitoring

3.5.1 Covidien

3.5.2 Masimo

3.5.3 Nonin

3.5.4 Opto Circuits

3.6 Air flow monitoring

3.6.1 Smith’s Medical

3.6.2 Clement Clarke International

3.6.3 Medical Electronic Construction

3.6.4 Medical International Research

3.6.5 Midmark

3.6.6 ndd Medizintechnik

3.6.7 nSpire

3.6.8 SDI Diagnostics

3.6.9 Sibelmed

3.6.10 Welch Allyn

3.7 Glucose level monitoring

3.7.1 Abbott Laboratories

3.7.2 Bayer Healthcare

3.7.3 Johnson & Johnson

3.7.4 Roche

3.7.5 BodyTel

3.7.6 Cardiocom

3.7.7 Dexcom

3.7.8 HealthPia America

3.8 Lipid monitoring

3.8.1 CardioChek

3.8.2 APEX

3.8.3 Biomedix

4 Medication and equipment monitoring solution providers

4.1 Medication compliance monitoring

4.1.1 Aardex Group

4.1.2 Bang & Olufsen Medicom

4.1.3 Cypak

4.1.4 Information Mediary Corporation

4.1.5 InforMedix

4.1.6 Medic4All/Telcomed

4.1.7 M-PLIFY

4.1.8 Proteus Biomedical

4.1.9 SimPill

4.1.10 Vitality

4.1.11 Vivatec

4.2 Integrated solution providers

4.2.1 Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare

4.2.2 GE Healthcare

4.2.3 iMetrikus

4.2.4 Invivo Data

4.2.5 MedApps

4.2.6 PHT

4.2.7 Tunstall Group

4.2.8 T+ Medical

5 Telecom and IT industry initiatives

5.1 Handset manufacturers

5.1.1 Apple’s iPhone drives development of mHealth apps

5.1.2 Lack of mHealth products for Nokia’s smartphones

5.1.3 Research in Motion and Palm face challenges

5.2 Telecom operators

5.2.1 Verizon Wireless teams with LifeWatch

5.2.2 Qualcomm cancels health-oriented MVNO Lifecomm

5.2.3 France Telecom’s Orange Healthcare unit aims for leadership in eHealth

5.2.4 SaskTel first to launch Alcatel-Lucent’s LifeStat

5.2.5 NTT DoCoMo introduces health-oriented handsets

5.3 IT companies

5.3.1 Google Health

5.3.2 Microsoft HealthVault

5.3.3 Intel Health Guide

5.3.4 Dossia employee health records

5.4 Industry associations and research institutes

5.4.1 Continua Health Alliance

5.4.2 The Bluetooth SIG Medical Working Group

5.4.3 West Wireless Health Institute

6 Market analysis and recommendations

6.1 Market analysis

6.2 Market drivers and challenges

6.2.1 An aging population

6.2.2 Increasing welfare disease prevalence

6.2.3 Focus on disease prevention

6.2.4 Substitutes to medical monitoring

6.3 Potential market catalysts

6.3.1 Increased monitoring during clinical trials

6.3.2 Insurance companies demanding monitoring

6.3.3 Non-prescribed monitoring

6.4 Recommendations for mobile industry players

Glossary

Abstract

• Understand the dynamics of the health monitoring market in Europe and North America.
• Comprehend how wireless technology can become seamlessly integrated with medical devices.
• Evaluate the business opportunities in the emerging mHealth segment.
• Identify potential partners in the healthcare monitoring ecosystem.
• Predict future market and technology developments

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