ISE Magazine, June 2017
JUNE 2017 ISEMAG COM 47 The 2 main applications are monitoring of patients with sleep therapy devices and monitoring of patients with implantable cardiac rhythm management CRM devices These 2 verticals accounted for 80 of all connected home medical monitoring systems in 2016 The number of remotely monitored sleep therapy patients grew by 70 in 2016 mainly driven by Resmed that has made connected healthcare a cornerstone of its strategy Other leading vendors in this segment are Philips Respironics and SRETT The CRM market is led by companies such as Medtronic Boston Scientific and St Jude Medical now Abbott that included connectivity in CRM solutions more than a decade ago Telehealth is the third largest segment with 050 million connections at the end of the year Leading telehealth hub vendors include Tunstall Healthcare Honeywell Cardiocom Philips and Qualcomm Life All other device categories including ECG glucose level medication adherence and others stood for less than 1 million connections together Cellular connectivity has already replaced the PSTN as the de facto standard communication technology for most types of connected home medical monitoring devices and will account for 252 million connections in 2021 The number of mHealth devices with integrated cellular connectivity increased from 30 million in 2015 to 49 million in 2016 The use of BYOD connectivity will increase the most during the next 5 years with a forecasted CAGR of 109 BYOD involves low costs but cannot be used to reliably connect every patient BYOD connectivity will be preferred by select patient groups and will be used for the remote monitoring of 229 million patients in 2021 The technology will be most useful for patient centric engagement programs in therapeutic areas such as diabetes and asthma that have younger patient demographics compared to many other chronic diseases In fact many of these patients will prefer to use their own smartphone as the interface instead of carrying around a dedicated device for remote monitoring n Anders Frick is Senior Analyst at Berg Insight His areas of expertise include mHealth and smart homes markets Berg Insight is a dedicated M2M IoT market research firm based in Sweden They specialize in all major M2M IoT verticals such as fleet management car telematics smart metering smart homes mHealth and industrial M2M For more information please visit www berginsight com M2M 49350257091044158424113609
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