Helping Healthcare, but can Telehealth Help Itself? (Market Focus)

Publication Date	May 2007
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Brief
Pages	14
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT05179

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Summary

Introduction

The desire to overcome the challenges facing all healthcare systems, including pressures to increase quality of care while decreasing overall healthcare costs, has lead to a growing interest in the application of telehealth solutions.

Scope

Identifies the key forces driving the adoption of telehealth
Analyzes the crucial issues that will impede the uptake of telehealth
Predicts how telehealth will change the delivery of healthcare

Highlights

Telehealth has the potential to transform the delivery of healthcare.

A wide range of issues are driving telehealth adoption.

Several roadblocks plague the more widespread adoption of telehealth in the near-term.

Reasons to Purchase

Understand the institutional factors influencing technology decision-making
Align product messaging with what will resonate best with healthcare organizations
Shape product development to meet the business pain points of the healthcare market

Content

Catalyst
Summary
Methodology
Analysis
- Telehealth has the potential to transform the delivery of healthcare
- A wide range of issues are driving telehealth adoption
- Telehealth increases access to healthcare despite a growing number of patients and a shortage of providers
- Financial pressures to do more with less will drive interest in telehealth
- Telehealth empowers patients to play an active role in their own care
- Several roadblocks plague the more widespread adoption of telehealth in the near-term
- Without appropriate reimbursement, telehealth solutions will not reach their full potential
- Human factors will impede the pace of uptake for telehealth solutions
- Technical standards, infrastructure and licensure laws are short-term inhibitors of telehealth
- Healthcare providers want it all: user-friendly, interoperable devices that will give a ROI
- Providers and patients will prefer solutions that are intuitive and easy to use
- Interoperable devices will increase telehealth investments
- Reimbursement for telehealth is key to adoption by providers
Actions
- Vendors must build telehealth solutions around providers and their patients
- Participating in policy discussions will be beneficial to vendors' bottom line
- Vendors should look to provide telehealth solutions for all aspects of healthcare
Appendix
- Definitions
- Extended methodology
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
List Of Figures
- Figure 1: The percentage of population over 65 will grow dramatically over the next 20 years
- Figure 2: The number of people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes will continue to increase from 2007 to 2015
- Figure 3: The total number of doctors (growth rate, %) will not match the expected patient need
- Figure 4: Online tools are exerting influence over consumers' interactions with their physicians (2005)
- Figure 5: The inhibitors to telehealth adoption range in difficulty (0=low, 4=high)