Telemedicine is optimistic about 2015, or usher in the industry turning point

According to venturebeat website reported that in 2015, for telemedicine (telemedicine) market is concerned, it will be an important year. In fact, the telemedicine concept has existed for several years. However, with wearable devices in large numbers, this technology will usher in a turning point in 2015. July this year, the fifth largest US medical institutions DignITy Health launched a telemedicine
robot to remotely provide expert consultation. To October, Google launched a new video chat service session with the doctor. Even WALGREENS (Walgreens) retail pharmacies, CVS and Wal-Mart have emerged telemedicine booths.

　　2015 will achieve far-reaching development of telemedicine for the following reasons:

　　1) According to BBC research report released by Towers Watson, the 2016 global telemedicine market size will increase to $ 27 billion, of which the virtual medical services will contribute $ 16 billion.

　　2) According to the IDC report, by 2018, 65% of medical institutions and organizations of "interaction" will be done through a mobile device. By 2018, 70% of medical institutions will launch the application software, providing wearable equipment, remote monitoring, virtual therapy.

　　3) 2014, Google venture capital investment in the company, with more than a third of the share into the health care and life sciences companies pocket.

　　In the field of health care, telemedicine for service providers and insurance companies and other enterprises to bring significant financial benefits, and improve their operational efficiency. For example, the virtual health can be reduced 93% the number of doctor consultation, so you can save $ 103 each consultation to consumers, saving $ 1,067 emergency consultations. According to the report, 50% of doctors consultation by virtual consultation is completed, 70% of the EMR can be done virtually. However, the rise of telemedicine, the patient should be the biggest beneficiaries. As new technologies emerge, the patient can receive faster, better quality, the better the treatment.

　　This is all very nice to listen to, but telemedicine outbreak in 2015 will be able to do? Not necessarily want to achieve all this, the following factors need to boost:

　　1) and in the field of virtual medical treatment combinations: Many companies provide a communication platform for patients and doctors via video phone. However, most of these companies are just doing the best virtual diagnosis. Patients eventually to go to the field hospital for treatment. Some mobile diagnostic equipment (eg Tyto) allows doctors to provide more services through a virtual consultation, such as in the field of treatment. More emergence of such equipment will be able to solve the problem of the treatment of the patient, and to provide a better outcome for the patient and health care institutions.

　　2) the use of networked devices: the health care industry will begin to take advantage of individual FitBits, Apple Health and other consumer health tracking data systematically collected. By creating a standardized patient and medical data, and the integration of this type of networking equipment, telemedicine providers can not only reduce health care costs while improving patient outcomes. For example, American Well launched applications, the consumer's personal data (including heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar) into its video consultation applications. The field service provider should not depend on a particular technology or systems, but should invest in an integrated and evaluation of data from different models of wearable devices, or networked devices to provide personalized, remote medical services.

　　3) care after treatment: topic around the device detection systems are mostly focused on prevention, while ignoring the track the patient's response, not timely tracking patient outcomes. First Opinion is a medical organization, it is to provide consumers with an anonymous service that doctors can get a text message reply within 5 minutes. First Opinion positioned itself as a relationship between commercial companies, their doctor after the initial meeting with the patient, still keep in close contact until the patient fully recovered. Prevention and tracking should be the real goal of telemedicine need to pursue, which is the way to significantly reduce costs. Service providers need to know the patient's past medical history, and access to new data from all the patients concerned, to integrate electronic archives to track the patient's condition.

　　In addition, patients should also consider existing telemedicine health care providers (including specialists, pharmacies and even home care division), which is very important. If you can do the above points, the entire health care technology platform will usher in a new development opportunities.