Medical Solutions - Technology & Telecommunications in Direct to Patient Care

Technology & telecommunications in direct to patient care is a term represented by Telamon's newest business unit, Medical Solutions. A few weeks ago, Sunny Lu, General Manager of Telamon's Medical Solutions business unit, presented on this topic at the Health Informatics Tri-State Summit at the University of Southern Indiana. Read on for a review of her presentation & for some very interesting stats!

Setting a Premise: 

• Focus on the patient as a consumer, a user, and in the home environment. 
• New definitions to derive new meaning. 
• It's all commercially viable. 
• Technology, as a tool. 
• Telecommunications, as a delivery method. 
• It's the program, not the product. 

Technology Tools - Social Media 

Social media drives the fastest, least expensive form of adoption. The most important factors of the patient adoption path include demographic, content,  and usage.

Technology - Usage 

Below you will see the top 5 smartphone operating systems, shipments and market share from Q1 2013. 55% of the US population uses a smartphone with the most popular operating systems being Android & iOS. 

Units in Millions

Telecommunications - A Nod to Engineering & Evolution 

 

Telecommunications Delivery System 

• Mobile Wireless Competition 
• Tier 1 Carriers: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile 
• Federal Communications Commission (more devices in use than population of US) 
• Fixed Broadband Competion
• Carriers: AT&T, Comcast, etc. 
• Demographic 
• 34% of adults live in wireless-only households
• 500 Megabytes of data consumed per month per user

To download a copy of Sunny's full presentation, please click here.