Wireless Healthcare Research Service

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This Service Covers the Following Technology and Market Issues:

  • Voice Over Wi-Fi in Healthcare
  • Real Time Location Systems in Healthcare
  • Patient Monitoring Including Body Area Networks
  • Telehealth and Telepresence
  • First Responder Wireless Connectivity Issues
  • Sports, Health and Wellbeing Markets for Wireless Healthcare Devices
  • Unified Communications and Electronic Medical Records
  • Wireless Healthcare Market Segmentation and Forecasts
  • Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, and Proprietary Wireless Technologies

Perspectives

A number of wireless technologies and mission-critical applications have converged over the past few years to create a vibrant wireless healthcare industry, one that is tracked closely by ABI Research's Wireless Healthcare Research Service. One example is a trend towards wireless patient monitoring. Physicians are able to use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices to examine just how effectively a patient's heart pacemaker is working. This information can be transmitted not only to a physician's handheld device, but also to computers on wheels (COWs) or computers on walls (COWs) for analysis.

It's not only patients' vital signs that are being monitored, however. Many hospitals as well as eldercare facilities are using RFID tags on patients to monitor their location within facilities. Some systems now are set up to send out alerts if an Alzheimer patient tries to leave a protected environment.

Still another example of the convergence of wireless technologies and applications in a modern healthcare facility is the exciting work taking place with quadriplegics. Researchers have successfully implanted chips that translate patients' brain signals into Wi-Fi data that is transmitted to mechanical braces on arms and legs. These devices are "instructed" to help move arms and legs. The result is patients who are able to walk and use their arms to enjoy a far more normal and independent life.

Forecasts in this Service

Companies

  • 3Com Corporation
  • Aeris Communications
  • Aerohive Networks Inc
  • AeroScout Inc
  • AirMagnet Inc
  • AirWatch
  • Apple
  • Aruba Networks Inc
  • AT&T
  • AT&T Corporation
  • Atheros Communications Inc
  • Atmel
  • Bluetooth SIG
  • Broadcom
  • Broadcom Corporation
  • Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR)
  • Cardiocom
  • Center for Connected Health
  • Cinterion Wireless Modules
  • Cisco Networks
  • Cisco Systems Inc
  • Continua Health Alliance
  • Continua Healthcare Alliance
  • CrossBridge Solutions
  • CSR
  • Cypress Semiconductor
  • DiVitas Networks
  • Dynastream Innovations
  • Ekahau Inc
  • EmFinders
  • EM Microelectronic
  • Enfora
  • Enterasys Networks Inc
  • FitLinxx
  • G2 Microsystems Inc
  • GE Healthcare
  • Healthsense
  • Healthsense Inc
  • Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP
  • HTC Corporation
  • InnerWireless Inc
  • Intel
  • Jasper Wireless
  • KORE Telematics
  • Kyocera Communications Inc
  • Linksys
  • M2MV LLC
  • Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
  • Motorola Inc
  • Motorola Wireless Modules
  • Nike
  • Nokia
  • Nordic Semiconductor
  • NTT DoCoMo
  • Numerex Corporation
  • Orange Business Services
  • Philips
  • Polar Electro
  • Polycom (SpectraLink)
  • Polycom Inc
  • Qualcomm Enterprise Services/nPhase
  • Redpine Signals Inc
  • RIM
  • Roche Diagnostics
  • Rogers Communications
  • Sensium
  • Sierra Wireless
  • Sigma Designs Inc
  • SIMCom Wireless Solutions
  • Sony Ericsson
  • Sprint
  • ST Ericsson
  • ST-NXP
  • Suunto
  • Swisscom
  • Telefonica
  • Telenor
  • Telit Communications
  • TELUS
  • Texas Instruments
  • T-Mobile USA
  • Trapeze Networks
  • Uniband Electric Corporation
  • Vocera
  • Wavecom
  • West Wireless Health Institute
  • Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance
  • Wyless
  • ZigBee Alliance
  • ZMD
  • Zoll Medical Corporation
  • Z-Wave Alliance