GSMA Research Reveals Growing Opportunity For Mobile Operators In Healthcare

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GSMA Research Reveals Growing Opportunity

For Mobile Operators In Healthcare

PR Newswire

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 30, 2012

- GSMA mHealth Tracker and Report Shows Evolution of Mobile Operators'

Health Services and Identifies Significant Value for the Health Industry

CAPE TOWN, South Africa

,

May 30, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- The GSMA today

announced that mobile operators are driving significant value for the

healthcare industry by improving access, reach and quality to care across the

entire patient pathway. The findings come from a new report by the GSMA

looking at the wider healthcare ecosystem, "

Integrating Healthcare: The Role

and Value of Mobile Operators in eHealth

," which was released at the Mobile

Health Summit in

Cape Town

on

30th May 2012

and is supported by data from

the GSMA mHealth Tracker.

"Over the past few years we've seen mobile operators delivering end-to-end

healthcare solutions which have typically been provided by the traditional

systems integrator but there is clear evidence supporting operators' emerging

role in eHealth," said Chris Locke, Managing Director, GSMA Development Fund.

"Today operators have evolved and are best placed to deliver the solutions

addressing the issues that the global healthcare industry faces, by lowering

costs and making healthcare more accessible."

The healthcare industry is undergoing a fundamental shift as demand from

patients for services outside of traditional healthcare settings, such as hospitals

and clinics, increases. This in turn is driving increased demand for mHealth

services, with the mHealth market estimated to be worth

US$23 billion

by

2017. In addition, operators are also developing ICT capabilities that enable

them to serve the larger eHealth market, such as cloud-based medical records

and imaging as well as in the provision of health information exchanges. This

larger eHealth market is estimated to be worth up to

USD$160 billion

in 2015.

Leading mobile operators are expanding beyond their core capabilities in

consumer voice and data, to global business integration capabilities. They are

now integral to areas such as cloud computing, enterprise collaboration,

machine-to-machine integration and integrated payments to support core

clinical and operational processes. For example, the report highlights that

Orange, in conjunction with GE, is integrating the imaging needs of the most

populous region in

France

, connecting more than 90 hospitals and 500

radiologists and covering a patient base of more than 12 million individuals.

AT&T has also recently signed large deals providing health information

exchange services to the Indiana Health Information Exchange, which includes

more than 80 facilities, 19,000 physicians and 10 million patients; as well as in

private sector Baylor Healthcare system in

Texas

.

The report provides a market evaluation framework for operators to assess the

opportunities and challenges in this broader market. The research also

indicates that as mobile operators continue to develop their capabilities to

connect people and businesses in increasingly more sophisticated ways, they

will face a number of challenges. Operators will need to build on their brands in

order to differentiate themselves from existing ICT infrastructure providers;

they will need to demonstrate their ability to deliver as new implementations

have large financial and brand risks attached; and they will have to

demonstrate the value that they bring to the eHealth industry and end

consumers in integrating the solutions both inside and outside of hospitals and

clinic settings.

As the mHealth industry continues to develop, there has been no

comprehensive cataloguing of global mHealth service deployment. To address

this, over the last nine months, the GSMA has tracked and analysed mHealth

products and services, and has created the GSMA mHealth Tracker. The

mHealth Tracker, which is available online at Mobile Health Live, provides data

on more than 600 mHealth products and services. The following filters for the

data are available: clinical need, service type, country, launch dates,

organisation deploying the service. In future, the GSMA will track mHealth

services on their business models, technology types and evidence being

generated.

Notes to Editors:

The report is part of the GSMA's Pan-African Health Initiative to drive

collaboration efforts between mobile operators and the public/private sector to

increase access to underserved communities. It follows on from the research

completed by the GSMA on how the connectivity between individuals and

healthcare practitioners can be improved by providing the means and incentive

for healthcare to occur over the mobile channel. For more information on the

GSMA's mHealth programme and to view the report, please visit

http://www.gsma.com/mhealthresources.

About the GSMA

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning

more than 220 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world's mobile

operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile

ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment

providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations.

The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as the Mobile World

Congress and Mobile Asia Expo.

For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at

www.gsma.com or Mobile World Live, the online portal for the mobile

communications industry, at www.mobileworldlive.com.