Frost & Sullivan: What's Next for Mobile Health?

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Frost & Sullivan: What's Next for Mobile

Health?

PR Newswire

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 5, 2012

- mHealth opportunities and obstacles to be presented and discussed

at the 9th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference & Exhibition

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California

,

June 5, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- The mobile health

(mHealth) market is playing an ever larger role in healthcare delivery and

management. With the saturation of mobile applications (apps) that support

varied healthcare purposes, from smoking cessation tools and regional allergy

alerts to instant heart rate readings, connected health is at the fingertips of

end-users.

Frost & Sullivan Senior Industry Analyst Zachary Bujnoch's moderation of the

panel, "What's Next for mHealth?" at the 9th Annual Healthcare Unbound

Conference & Exhibition on

July 19 to 20, 2012

at the Hotel Kabuki in

San

Francisco, California

promises to place a spotlight on the prospects and

adversities mHealth industry players face in this up-and-coming market. His

moderation will draw from insight gained from Frost & Sullivan's research,

Analysis of the U.S. Broadband mHealth Applications Market

.

If you are interested in more information, please send an email to Britni Myers,

Corporate Communications, at [e-mail], with your full name,

company name, job title, telephone number, company email address, company

website, city, state and country.

Wireless technology has a number of distinctive characteristics that make it an

attractive platform for delivering healthcare anytime and anyplace. Wireless

networks, ranging from body area to wide area networks, are increasingly

ubiquitous. Devices with embedded wireless connectivity are used more often

to manage personal health and wellbeing, giving rise to apps like chronic care

management, fitness tracking, medication compliance, and diagnostic

monitoring. Already, the number of mHealth app purchases is in the tens of

thousands each year.

"Today, we are seeing the tip of the iceberg in the U.S. mHealth market's

potential," said Bujnoch. "mHealth will continue on a steep growth curve as

increasingly sophisticated mobile technologies and relationship-management

tools disrupt the market."

Though a number of real barriers remain to be overcome, mHealth technology

has great potential for encouraging healthy living. The "What's Next for

mHealth?" panel will explore how people are benefiting from the new care

practices and solutions enabled by wireless technology and device platforms.

The panel will also discuss innovations in wireless health, emerging business

models and trends, as well as key considerations in implementing these

technologies to improve health outcomes.

"mHealth is an important theme at our Healthcare Unbound Conference, which

also covers innovative applications of remote monitoring, home telehealth,

eHealth, social media and gaming," said The Center for Business Innovation

Managing Director Satish Kavirajan. "These approaches help to manage

diseases, promote wellness and facilitate accountable care."