Telehealth: the next big thing?

The adoption of telehealth – which we broadly define as the use of technology to monitor patients’ vital signs remotely, usually in their own homes – is still nascent in the UK but a broad range of suppliers are jockeying for a good position on the ‘start line’.

Despite progress continuing to be slower than many in the industry expect, we think that telehealth has finally reached something of a ‘tipping point’ in the NHS market. Taken together, stronger government policy, growing (though not yet conclusive) evidence from pilots, advances in technology (e.g. smartphone apps and superfast broadband) and more innovative supplier offerings conspire to bring telehealth to the cusp of wide-scale adoption.

Indeed, we believe that the widespread adoption of telehealth in the UK is inevitable and that it presents significant opportunities for a wide variety of ICT suppliers from device manufacturers, through application developers to providers of a complete managed monitoring and triage service.

In the latest research from our PublicSectorViews team – Telehealth: the next big thing? - we examine progress towards the adoption of telehealth services in the UK to date, highlight the emergent supplier landscape and present our view of the longer term outlook for the UK telehealth services market. The report is available for PublicSectorViews subscribers to download from today. If you don’t yet subscribe to our public sector research please contact Deborah Seth for more details.

Posted by Tola Sargeant at '09:00' - Tagged: publicsector   health   telehealth