"remote health monitoring" articles

As part of the Digital Health research service, Parks Associates issued a Market Focus report on health-related, consumer electronics devices, “Multiple Medication Management & Smart Pill Boxes”. The study surveyed over 3,000 people that take multiple medications and gauged their interest in consumer electronics devices that could help them manage their medicines. One of the findings is that, young people are actually more open to using these devices than the elderly. One...

Wearables have enormous potential for use in health and fitness, navigation, social networking, commerce and media. They have the capability to be even closer and more personal than the smartphone – lending brands the ability to form even more intimate relationships with consumers... When will connected wearables move from geeky gadget to mainstream must have? Will the rise of wearables heighten the platform wars? What else is getting connected and why? Find out at The Open...

Despite technology innovations and breakthroughs in interoperability, sales of connected care devices have remained slow, not counting smartphones, tablets, MP3 players/GPS devices that can be dubbed as care data terminals. There are a few important things to note: • Vital-sign monitoring device makers do not release sales figures of Bluetooth-enabled weight scales, glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, and pulse oximeters. • ZigBee-enabled home monitoring kits face market...

Passed in the spring of 2010, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes provisions that almost certainly will harm the medical device industry. The most immediate and harmful provision of the Affordable Care Act is a medical device excise tax of 2.3% on medical device revenues, scheduled to go into effect in 2013. The tax is estimated to generate $20 billion in tax revenue annually and is to be levied on the total revenues of a company, regardless of whether the company is...

U.S. revenues from digital health technology-enabled solutions and services will exceed $5.7 billion in 2015, fueled by chronic-care monitoring solutions, senior aging-in-place services, and connected wellness and fitness apps and programs, a new industry report from Parks Associates forecasts. According to Delivering Quality Care to the Digital Home: 2010 Update , industry revenues in 2010 hit $1.7 billion, and the projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the next five...

Parks Associates' groundbreaking consumer survey Uptake of Personal Health Tools & Services reveals important consumer insights on personal health technologies. Almost 20% of U.S. consumers who care for an ill family member are willing to pay out-of-pocket for a home health monitoring service, almost double the number who would purchase the service for themselves, according to Parks Associates. Uptake of Personal Health Tools & Services finds consumer motivations for adopting...

Parks Associates is supporting T he Burrill Consumer Digital Health Meeting to be held March 22-23rd in Burlingame, CA. Burrill & Company, in association with the University of Illinois, Mayo Clinic, and Pfizer, is for the first time holding The Burrill Consumer Digital Health Meeting to help prepare the life sciences community for this new era. Learn how PDAs and smartphones will become personal healthcare assistants capable of receiving vital signs and even body fluid samples...

Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates will present "Market Trends, PHR Buzz, & Wireless for Healthcare: Implications for Continua" on Wednesday, October 7th at the Continua Health Alliance Fall Summit in Boston, MA. This two-hour presentation have three mini-tracks that will cover the latest market trends in the personal health technology market, discuss adoption trends and use cases of Personal Health Records (PHR), and...