- According to Manhattan Research, 81 percent of physicians will utilize smartphones by 2012 – this level of adoption was reached in May 2011
- Revenues from remote patient monitoring services that use mobile networks will rise to $1.9 billion globally by 2014 as noted by Juniper Research
- Chillmark predicts that the rapid evolution of mobile devices, physician demand, and healthcare enterprises’ need to improve quality and efficiencies will send the mobile app market soaring to $1.7 billion in three years time
- Voice over WiFi and RTLS (real-time location systems) will be joined by “medical body area networks” (MBANs), which utilize WiFi in mobile monitoring device, to catapult the WiFi market into the $1.3B range
- The market for wearable devices will exceed 100 million units annually by 2016, as reported ABI Research
- The global combined unit shipments of home-use digital blood-glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, weight scales, pulse oximeters and peak flow meters used in telehealth applications will grow to more than 1.6 million, according to a 2010 InMedica report
- Wireless devices that monitor patients’ conditions and report the data to healthcare providers will show a 77 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) that will create global revenues of $950 million by 2014, according to a 2009 report from ABI Research
