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Report: 3M People Will Use Smartphones To Monitor Health by 2016

About three million people are expected to be using smartphone-powered remote  patient monitoring devices by 2016, according to a report from Juniper Research, FierceMobileHealthcare reports.

The report predicts that the increase will be driven by an expansion of  peripheral devices for monitoring patient data — such as wearable biometric  sensors — as well as more processing power in mobile devices (Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare, 2/2).

Other Report Predictions

The report also predicts that:

  • 44 million mobile health applications will be downloaded this year, and  about 142 million will be downloaded in 2016 (Dolan, MobiHealthNews, 2/1);
  • Electronic health records will become an important component of mobile  health offerings (Pulley, NextGov, 2/3);
  • Increased use of smartphones for remote patient monitoring will lower costs  by reducing the need for expensive dedicated medical devices  (MobiHealthNews, 2/1);
  • Further guidance from FDA on the regulation of mobile health apps will  help boost usage (FierceMobileHealthcare, 2/2); and
  • The greater use of smartphones will increase remote monitoring of chronic  diseases such as diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease  (NextGov, 2/3).

Source: iHealthBeat

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