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Continued care with interoperable personal devices panel.
Valter Wolf, Market Development Director GSMA
© GSMA 2013
The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators
worldwide. Spanning more than 220 countries, the GSMA unites nearly
800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies
in the broader mobile ecosystem.
What is the GSMA?
© GSM Association 2013
 The GSMA mHealth Programme supports cost-effective delivery of
better healthcare for everyone
 Demonstrate outcomes by running trials and producing evidence
that show the benefits of mobile health solutions
 Foster new relationships between the healthcare sector and the
mobile industry
 Stimulate scalable, replicable technical solutions that promote
hardware and software interoperability
 Promote policy and regulatory principles that will stimulate growth
and innovation
 Showcase mobile health solutions and cross-industry collaboration
through events and seminars
What is the GSMA mHealth Programme?
© GSM Association 2013
Empower poor and chronic patients
• Extend universal healthcare to 46Mn additional patients in
Brazil and 15.5m patients in Mexico
• Equip 16.4m citizens to improve their lifestyle and reduce
impact of chronic diseases, prolonging lives
Sustain universal healthcare systems
• Enhance quality of care and efficiency of care delivery, saving
USD $17.9bn in costs
• USD $102 can be saved by each regular mHealth user in out of
pocket healthcare expenses
• Create 200,000 jobs to support mHealth deployments across
Brazil and Mexico
Improve quality of life
• Add 20.6m doctor days through improved prevention, diagnosis
and treatment
• Ensure that citizens constitute a healthier workforce, adding
USD 13bn to GDP of Mexico and Brazil
$17.9
bn
Total healthcare cost savings
in 2017
$13bn
Total GDP addition in 2017
61.5 m
Additional patients treated in
2017
Source: PWC Socio Economic Impact of mHealth
Potential mHealth impact in Latam
© GSM Association 2013
Plug and Play
Back end
mHealth gateway
Value added ubiquitous
mHealth services
Decrease cost
Increase speed to
market
Interoperability is fundamental to success of mHealth
Connectivity
Fragmented services
Interoperability Mature Standards Scalability
Devices
Providers
Industries
© GSM Association 2013
What are the benefits of mHealth?
mHealth benefits
Mobile health offers solutions that can result in
better care for more people at lower cost
patients,providers
payers,vendors,
nations
and the world

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mhealth

  • 1. Continued care with interoperable personal devices panel. Valter Wolf, Market Development Director GSMA
  • 2. © GSMA 2013 The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning more than 220 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem. What is the GSMA?
  • 3. © GSM Association 2013  The GSMA mHealth Programme supports cost-effective delivery of better healthcare for everyone  Demonstrate outcomes by running trials and producing evidence that show the benefits of mobile health solutions  Foster new relationships between the healthcare sector and the mobile industry  Stimulate scalable, replicable technical solutions that promote hardware and software interoperability  Promote policy and regulatory principles that will stimulate growth and innovation  Showcase mobile health solutions and cross-industry collaboration through events and seminars What is the GSMA mHealth Programme?
  • 4. © GSM Association 2013 Empower poor and chronic patients • Extend universal healthcare to 46Mn additional patients in Brazil and 15.5m patients in Mexico • Equip 16.4m citizens to improve their lifestyle and reduce impact of chronic diseases, prolonging lives Sustain universal healthcare systems • Enhance quality of care and efficiency of care delivery, saving USD $17.9bn in costs • USD $102 can be saved by each regular mHealth user in out of pocket healthcare expenses • Create 200,000 jobs to support mHealth deployments across Brazil and Mexico Improve quality of life • Add 20.6m doctor days through improved prevention, diagnosis and treatment • Ensure that citizens constitute a healthier workforce, adding USD 13bn to GDP of Mexico and Brazil $17.9 bn Total healthcare cost savings in 2017 $13bn Total GDP addition in 2017 61.5 m Additional patients treated in 2017 Source: PWC Socio Economic Impact of mHealth Potential mHealth impact in Latam
  • 5. © GSM Association 2013 Plug and Play Back end mHealth gateway Value added ubiquitous mHealth services Decrease cost Increase speed to market Interoperability is fundamental to success of mHealth Connectivity Fragmented services Interoperability Mature Standards Scalability Devices Providers Industries
  • 6. © GSM Association 2013 What are the benefits of mHealth? mHealth benefits Mobile health offers solutions that can result in better care for more people at lower cost patients,providers payers,vendors, nations and the world

Notes de l'éditeur

  1. For those of you who are not familiar with us, the GSMA represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry. Spanning 219 countries, the GSM Association membership comprises 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well 200 companies in the mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, equipment providers, software companies and others. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as the  Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Expo.Our remit is to innovate, incubate and to create new opportunities for our membership, all with the goal of driving the growth of the mobile communications industry as well as looking at how mobile technology can be used in other vertical industries (such as healthcare) in order to drive innovation, cut cost and improve quality
  2. In order to accelerate the uptake of mhealth and ensure that this great opportunity is seized, GSMA are together with our members running an mHealth programme with the aim to prove the case for mobile health and encourage adoption of mobile technology in healthcare.We have a number of aims with the programme:We are achieving our objectives through:Demonstrating outcomes and impacts on individuals, healthcare systems and society by running trials and producing evidence that show the benefits of mobile health. Fostering new relationships and partnering between the healthcare sector and the mobile industry. For example, GSMA have initiated a diabetes programme that is focusing on:Exploring how mobile health can support and transform diabetes care in established, emergent and developing health economiesDeveloping case studies and examples of best practice that we can share with health economies to accelerate the implementation of mobile health solutions for diabetesSupporting our members in reaching out to healthcare organisations, payers and patient associations, to encourage cooperation and partnership in diabetes solutionsSupporting operators in developing and delivering trials or pilot programmes with advice regarding strategy, study design, methodology and analysis – including recommendations on scalability and implementation Stimulating scalable, replicable technical solutions that promote hardware and software interoperability. Promoting policy and regulatory principles that will stimulate growth and innovation. For example, GSMA haveInitiated a Brussels work stream to raise the profile of mobile health among European Union regulatorsInitiated cooperation with such standards organisations as the Continua Health Alliance, whose objectives we support  Showcasing mobile health solutions and advanced cross-industry awareness and knowledge through events and seminars in the healthcare industry
  3. When we looked at the objectives of the GSMA mHealth programme earlier, one of the critical success factors that we highlighted that will enable mHealth to deliver it’s full potential, is to ensure that there is interoperability across devices, providers and indeed industries. In healthcare, interoperability is the ability for different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, to exchange data accurately, effectively, and consistently, and to use the information that has been exchanged. The pinnacle of interoperability, will be when we have true machine to machine communication. The full benefits of health data exchange will occur, and this will happen when these machines can interpret data,perform automatic functions, and we have an open, plug-and-play environment.This requires standards for health information exchange, patient data security and authentication.If interoperability is fully achieved, through the development of mature standards, mHealth will be able to achieve scale, moving awayfrom the current seen fragmented services into integrated, ubiquitous, value added products.The GSMA is working with partners such as the Continua Health Alliance to develop and promote technical standards and reference implementations that will lead to interoperable components and scalability for products and services, thus reducing costs and time to market for new solutions.
  4. In summary, we can see that there are a broad range of stakeholders who will benefit from the development of the mHealth ecosystem, not least the patients, but also Governments in the form of payers, healthcare providers, vendors of mHealth products and services .The thought leadership and drive to deliver standards for interoperability by the Continua Health Alliance is a real enabler that is allowing mHealth become a reality in the Latam region, and around the world.