Connected Health

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual meeting and tradeshow in Baltimore this past May. The meeting is billed as the worlds largest telemedicine, mHealth, and telehealth meeting and tradeshow. The event is certainly an important venue for trendspotting all thats new and notable in this important and growing industry. Frost...

The wearable technology products market is booming by dint of its growth factors. Consumer-driven products can be specialty or conventional health monitors that extract data from specific devices such as an activity tracking wristband for pulse measurements or shoes that monitor the wearer's steps for a real-time self-assessment of fitness conditio...

The North American cardiac monitoring services market finds a catalyst for growth in regulatory and infrastructural means of expanding hospital services to the population. These take the form of Integrated Delivery Networka hospital with their practitioners, insurance providers and hospice services; or the more recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) tha...

In November 2013, Frost & Sullivan conducted an online survey, followed by a live focus group comprising C-suite executives from leading commercial healthcare payer organizations across the United States. The goal was to gain insights into how the health insurance industry approaches the use of analytics solutions going into 2014. For research purp...

Digital pathology, as a carrier of efficient patient care in the form of long-distance telepathology and telemedecine, can support evolving healthcare needs requiring highly differentiated but integrated products and services. Top causes of inhibited growth is that the costs against the return on investments (ROI) weighs more on the side of costs, ...

The HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition is one of the premier gatherings for leading participants in the health IT industry. This venue brings together a vast array of global market participants  vendors, customers, government officials, academics, and thought leaders  looking to network and make new contacts, gain a comprehensive overview of ...

2013 proved to be a year of tremendous rethought on traditional payor roles in various emerging models for care that involve varying levels of consumer participation as well as more capitated setups that limit payment for plan-supported provider billing. This market insight discusses Frost & Sullivan's view on the three main temporary restraints on...

Telehealth, including remote monitoring, video telemedicine, and mobile health (mHealth), is central to the healthcare delivery transformation by way of the converging healthcare and information communication technology (ICT) sectors. This study analyzes survey data taken at the 2013 ATA conference. Drivers and restraints, 5 and 10 year areas of op...

The following Vital Signs presents highlights from our attendance at Health 2.0 in Santa Clara, CA. This meeting is held every fall in the San Francisco area and is considered to be one of the premier events to gage the latest trends in disruptive health IT, particularly related to consumer health and patient engagement. We discuss our perspectives...