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Home Health Monitoring Systems for Heart Failure Patients Emerge As the Healthcare Industry Moves From Intervention-Based Care to Preventive Care

Posted on: Thursday, 10 April 2008, 12:01 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c88230) has announced the addition of Executive Brief -- Home Health Monitoring for Heart Failure Patients to their offering.

Heart failure represents a costly and debilitating burden on families and health system alike. This report analyzes an emerging solution that remotely monitors heart failure patients at home using the latest telecommunication infrastructure and medical device technologies. Besides highlighting the solutions, the report evaluates this market in comparison to existing approaches like heart failure disease management practices and the traditional clinical intervention model. Furthermore, the report examines the target market segments and compares different business models employed by technology vendors. Finally, the report provides a five-year revenue forecast for heart failure home monitoring technologies and profiles major solution providers.

"The healthcare industry is slowly moving away from intervention-based care to preventive care, and home monitoring is arriving at the right junction,"

said Harry Wang, Senior Analyst with Parks Associates. "To make home monitoring a sustainable business venture, however, solution vendors must

clear away a few significant hurdles first, including addressing the high cost issue of the solution and expanding into new markets where successful business models are still elusive."

Companies Mentioned:

A&D Medical

Alere Medical

CareMatix

CardioNet

LifeWatch

McKesson Provider Technology

Patient Care Technology

SHL Telemedicine

ViTelNet

WebVMC

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c88230

Source: Business Wire

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