Healthcare Going Mobile

Healthcare Technology Online
December 2, 2010

Evidence has been emerging recently that illustrates the growing interest of wireless and mobile technologies in the healthcare sector...

More recent news that illustrates increased mobile activity in the healthcare sector is AT&T's formation of a division specifically geared toward health information technology. The new division, called AT&T ForHealth, will focus on the development and delivery of health IT solutions including telehealth, cloud computing, and wireless monitoring devices. The company estimates the health IT market to be worth $34 billion and said it generated approximately $4 billion in revenue from its health care industry business in 2009...

The New England Healthcare Institute estimates that these types of home monitoring and mobile disease management technologies could save the healthcare industry $4.7 billion to $6.7 billion each year.

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