Market prediction: medical hub lit remote medical prospects

InMedica company recently published global remote medical report that in telemedicine use Gateway number will exceed 100 million by 2014, 2018 will reach approximately 360 000.

Government and private medical service providers want to improve through remote medical compensation and reduce legal and liability disputes, which all help to telemedicine as a mainstream technology for remote monitoring of disease and the family, remote medical care. InMedica prediction of telemedicine will be in 2012 is a private health service providers are widely used, this will give 2-3 years to address the current market issues, such as medical insurance companies demonstrate large-scale application of telemedicine.

2009 medical hub is the most widely used gateway, accounted for 80% of the total number of medical gateway.

InMedica think in the short and medium term, for a professional medical service providers, medical hub will remain the most practical solution because of its architecture to simplify and standardize on a large scale. Although in 2009 as medical gateway integrated cellular phone number is very small, but projected 2014 to reach 35 million. InMedica analyst Neha Khandelwal says, "in the past few years, as more and more patients, and equipment suppliers are aware of its advantages in data transfer, the mobile phone as a remote medical gateway attracted more interest. We anticipate that mobile service operators in the future of telemedicine market will be very important. ”

InMedica forecast medical hub will be more application in disease management, such as congestive heart failure (Congestive Heart Failure, CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, COPD).

However, other diseases such as diabetes management, mobile phones will be more accepted and applied. Many equipment vendors have released based on the blood glucose data transfer mobile phone will give doctors of diabetes management project. Since diabetics are very accustomed to use blood glucose meters for general self-monitoring, use remote medical services will not be on their way of life significantly altered so that the customers of adaptability would not become a big problem. Also, get medical experts timely feedback for the patient's disease treatment itself is also very helpful.