mHealth

How can we be sure that mobile healthcare (mHealth) isn't just technology-driven hype?

In this PwC-commissioned report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), patients, doctors and payers share their views on mHealth. Find out what they told us, and learn more about the potential of mobile health in developed and emerging markets, the challenges, and the impact on stakeholders. Read more
 

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• Roughly half of patients say
  mHealth will improve healthcare

  59%

  of doctors believe it is inevitable.
  But adoption will take time.

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• Only

  53%

  of doctors say
  mHealth works

  with their workspace
  IT systems

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• Patients and payers want change…

  …but 42%

  of doctors worry mHealth
  makes patients too independent

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• 68%

  of doctors in emerging markets
  recommend mHealth.

  59% of patients already use it.

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• 64%

  of doctors and payers are
  excited about mHealth

  …but say there are too few
  proven business models

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Key findings from the EIU 2012 report