Digital Economy - E-Health Insights

Synopsis

E-health has become an area where key killer applications that utilise truly high-speed broadband networks are emerging and is one example of how broadband is important for social reasons beyond Internet access. BuddeComm believes that the alternative to not embracing e-health is to accept a significantly inferior healthcare service in the future. Countries that are lagging in broadband infrastructure developments are going to face, not just a telecoms dilemma – but, more importantly, they are going to face a health crisis. The following report includes recent industry insights on the e-health sector and also provides global market summary including two case studies. The report is designed to provide current observations which may assist investors, analysts and industry participants in making investment and business decisions.

Latest developments:

E-health is a key area of focus for M2M initiatives; Cloud computing developments are also being applied to e-health; M-health is also a growth area.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Healthcare – next sector on the block for e-transformation
• 3. Market summary
  • 3.1 Patient/citizen remains central
• 4. E-health in the context of BuddeComm research
  • 4.1 This is how to stimulate growth of e-health
• 5. Key market directions
  • 5.1 Broadband essential to maintain public health system
  • 5.2 M2M and IT also key to sustainable healthcare
    • 5.2.1 M2M applications for healthcare
  • 5.3 Cloud computing
  • 5.4 M-Health
  • 5.5 Privacy and security a key concern
    • 5.5.1 Quality of service needs to be considered
  • 5.6 Accountability and transparency
• 6. Examples of applications
  • 6.1 Internet already a popular source for health information
  • 6.2 Aged care services at home
  • 6.3 Business opportunities for e-hospitals
  • 6.4 P4 Medicine
  • 6.5 Interactive Telemedicine
  • 6.6 Wound Technology Network
  • 6.7 Using Twitter for e-health
  • 6.8 E-Payments in healthcare
  • 6.9 Further project examples through the years
• 7. Case studies
  • 7.1 E-health in Denmark
  • 7.2 Maygar Telekom promoting Hungarian e-health initiatives
  • 7.3 Estonia’s e-health evolution
• 8. Conclusion: There simply is no alternative to e-health
  • 8.1 E-health: start with the professionals
• 9. Related reports

• Table 1 – Spending on healthcare as a percentage of GDP – selected countries – 2009
• Table 2 – Worldwide fixed broadband subscribers and annual change – 2005 - 2012
• Table 3 – Worldwide - Top 10 countries by fixed broadband subscribers – 2008 - 2010
• Table 4 – Regional - Share of broadband subscribers – Q1 2011

• Exhibit 1 – Snapshot of health care spending around the world
• Exhibit 2 – Broadband enabling better chronic disease management in Geelong Australia
• Exhibit 3 – Video consultancy covered by Medicare
• Exhibit 4 – Advantages of e-health
• Exhibit 5 – Digital healthcare appointment systems
• Exhibit 6 – Healthcare monitoring for the elderly
• Exhibit 7 – Definition: Cloud computing
• Exhibit 8 – Examples of popular health related websites
• Exhibit 9 – E-Health project examples