What is Telehealth? How It Help In The Healthcare Sector?
Telehealth is
a technique of exchanging data from a patient at home to healthcare
professional for getting assistance in monitoring and diagnosing. Telehealth
allows the healthcare practitioner to easily offer their services on
consultation, care management, diagnosis, and self-management services using
information & communication technologies (ICT). These services are being
offered through various mode of delivery such as on-premise, web-based, and
cloud-based.
The market for telehealth is well established in the region
of North America, owing to the awareness regarding medical practices and
technological developments in the telehealth. Various market players have been
focusing towards shifting their customer base in North America. However, in
Asia-Pacific region, China has a well-defined telehealth systems present in its
healthcare systems also the EHR systems are adopted by various providers. The
high growth of this region can be attributed to increasing geriatric population
and growing technological advancements that enable mobile telehealth in rural
and urban areas.
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Growing aging
population, increase in number of chronic diseases, and increasing demand for
home monitoring devices are the major drivers which are likely to aid the
growth of telehealth market. Rising technological advancements and enhancing demand for
home monitoring solutions are likely to add new opportunities for this market
in the coming years.
The key players operating in the field of telehealth market worldwide include Medtronic, Cerner Corporation, Tunstall Healthcare, AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc., Philips Healthcare, Cisco Systems, Inc., Aerotel Medical Systems Ltd., Honeywell Life Care Solutions, Medvivo Group Ltd., American Well among others.

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