With the increased demand for better healthcare management for both providers and payers, mobile health is a very important aspect. Healthcare management demands to keep a track of health information of patients, which will minimize the emergency situations, hospitalizations, imaging tests, and procedures. The use of mobile devices by healthcare professionals has revolutionized many aspects of clinical practice. It has become the major factor driving the development of new innovative medical software applications for clinical platforms. This simultaneously helps in an effective movement of healthcare information from patients across healthcare facilities and vice-versa. The apps developed (adhering to HIPAA-compliances) make private practices, hospitals, and other healthcare systems implement mobile devices without any major regulatory complications. Many patients are also showing a lot of interest in mHealth due to its ease of use. These factors primarily drive the mobile health market in the North America region. However, the effectiveness and efficiency of certain devices have been a factor, along with data privacy issues, which hinders the growth of mobile health in the North America region.

Key Market Trends

Remote Patient Monitoring Devices are Estimated to Hold Major Share, Over the Forecast Period

Healthcare in the United States is experiencing positive trends with the emergence of mHealth applications that help Americans to be active in personal health management. In Canada, the use of remote patient monitoring (RPM) has proved to be cost-effective, by reducing the emergency visits for patients suffering from congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. There is rising interest by telecom companies and certain healthcare IT focussed companies on telemedicine, which drives the use of remote patient monitoring. In the case of cardiac patients, remote patient monitoring is vital to transmitting the data of the heart’s rate and rhythm connecting care providers and patients in the clinic or hospitals. The demand is expected to grow steadily with the growing need in multispeciality hospitals.

Competitive Landscape

The major market players are focusing on better distribution channel as well as reaching out to different hospital and healthcare facilities across different cities and patients, which makes the companies grow in this market. Some of the major players in the market are Boston Scientific Corporation, Koninklijke Philips N.V., Medtronic PLC, Qualcomm Life, and AT&T Inc among others.

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