Source: ctia.org

Some Highlights:

The current U.S. market for wireless, home-based health care applications is $304 million, according to one estimate.

With regard to mobile device applications used by physicians, a survey conducted by MDsearch found that 53 percent of responding physicians owned a smartphone and that 63 percent of those with smartphones used mobile medical applications over the device.

The explosion of medical applications available over mobile phones also is demonstrated by the applications available at Apple’s iTunes store and thus available over the iPhone. Zume Life, for example, is an iPhone application that allows patients to record all their daily health activities and ongoing health conditions and provides patients medication reminders

That market is expected to grow to $4 billion in 2013, with estimated annual growth rates of 96 percent in 2010, 126 percent in 2011, 95 percent in 2012, and 68 percent in 2013.

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) should adopt policies that will promote  the growth of mobile health services and applications (“mHealth”) in the United States.

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