Telemedicine has seen consistent growth over the past 15 years and is shifting from hospitals to homes and mobile devices. Chronic disease management and remote monitoring of conditions like cardiovascular disease are major areas of growth due to aging populations and rising healthcare costs. Success stories demonstrate benefits like reduced hospitalizations and costs through remote monitoring of patients with conditions like heart disease and COPD. Further growth depends on addressing challenges and stakeholders cooperating to plan and manage programs.

1. Ofer Atzmon
VP Business Development and Marketing
Ten Years (and more…) of
Trends and Success Stories
in Telemedicine
Med-e-Tel 2012

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15 Years of Experience in More than 50 Countries

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Main Trends – Recent Market Data

4. Analysts Predict Consistent Growth for Telemedicine
4 Source: Berg Insight
Source: Parks Associates

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Parks Associates: Digital Health to Triple by 2015

6. Telemedicine in Shifting from Hospitals to Homes…
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Source: BCC Research

7. … And from Home to Mobile
7 Image Credit: Luis Vazquez/Gulf News
 Telemedicine’s recent drive results from growth in mobile services
 Analysis shows mHealth solutions can reduce costs by 25%
 Mobile healthcare applications downloads expected to rise to 142 million
in 2016 from 44 million in 2012
Source: Parks Associates, Boston Consulting
Group, Juniper Research

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ECG Monitoring is a Major Segment of Telemedicine
 ECG monitoring continues to expand due to:
 the rise of the aging population,
 increasing incidence of cardiovascular diseases, and
 growing number of people receiving home care
 demonstrated costs/benefits
Source: Global Industry Analytics (GBI)

9. Chronic Disease Management Comes Next
 200 million patients in the EU and the US suffer from chronic diseases
 This will increase dramatically by 10%-20% over the next 10 years
 Insurance companies try to lower their expanses
 Initiatives taken by governments and private providers to increase
reimbursements
 Reduction of the legal and liability issues
 The result: Significant growth in home management of chronic
diseases
9 Source: GBI, Juniper Research, Berg Insight, InMedica

10. Telehealth Users by Condition
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Success Stories

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Personal ECG Monitoring
HeartView™ P12/8
Personal12-Lead ECG
Telehealth
Center
Fixed or Mobile
Phone
BT

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ECG Transmission via Telephone (USA)
Source: NBC News, USA

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Tele-Cardiology in Public Health (UK)
Source: NHS

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NHS Study Main Conclusions
 Tele-cardiology services offer significant economical, clinical and
administrative benefits
 Ease of use and reliability of the technology make it attractive to both
clinical staff and patients
 Huge cost savings have been demonstrated
 Fast return-on-investment means technology is highly affordable

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“The Do-It-Yourself House Call” (USA)
Remote-Monitoring Technology Leads Heart Patients to Take Their Readings at Home
From the Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2010
Ms. Brown's blood-pressure reading and
transmission devices.
'I was constantly going to the doctor,' said
Carolyn Brown of the Bronx, N.Y. 'Now they
can tell right away if I am in trouble.'

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Demonstrated Benefits
 Detect changes and intervene before the patient has to be hospitalized
 Instead of constantly going to the doctor, the monitoring service can
detect immediately if the patient has a problem
 Faster evaluation of suspected heart failures
 30% reduction in hospitalization for heart-failure patients
 Cost savings: $6,300 for a Medicaid heart patient's typical hospital stay
vs. a $620 remote monitoring system

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Home Monitoring of COPD Patients (Spain)
Princesa University Hospital (Madrid), Air Products

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COPD Study Outcomes
days in hospital
visits to
emergency
units
hospitalizations
Telemedicine
Group
Control Group
Source: Air Products

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Wireless ECG in Ambulance Service (Brazil)
Source: Globo News, Brazil, January, 2010
BlackBerry® application developed by ITMS, Brazil

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Wireless ECG in Ambulance – The benefits
 Empower paramedics to take ECG
 Receive instant interpretation form remote cardiology experts
 Hospital fully prepared and informed when patient arrives
 Save critical time
 Save lives

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Conclusions
 Telemedicine sees growth while still facing many challenges
 Telemedicine can succeed when
 challenges are well understood and managed,
 stakeholders cooperate and share benefits
 programs are carefully planned and managed

23. Thank you
for your attention
Ofer Atzmon
VP Business Development and Marketing
+972-3-5593222 ext. 109
ofer@aerotel.com
www.aerotel.com