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Emerging mHealth:
Paths for growth



A global research study
about the opportunities
and challenges of mobile
health from the perspective
of patients, payers
and providers




                              www.pwc.com/mhealth
We live in a world that’s connected wire-       Industrialisation of the healthcare
lessly with almost as many cellular phone       sector, already in motion, and driven by
subscriptions as there are people on the        technologies such as electronic medical
planet. According to the International          records, remote monitoring and commu-
Telecommunication Union, there were             nication platforms, etc. is in many ways
almost 6 billion mobile phones in use
worldwide in late 2011.1 The ubiquity           mHealth. Patient-centric, ‘care anywhere’ is
of mobile technology offers tremendous          becoming a reality.
opportunities for the healthcare industry
to address one of the most pressing global      Healthcare is moving towards a precision-
challenges: making healthcare more acces-       based model—or ‘personalised medicine’.
sible, faster, better and cheaper.              As a result of greater understanding of
                                                the human genome, together with other
Unlike many other forms of communica-           personalised technologies, the industry
tion, such as the Internet, mobile health       will likely transform—as have many
(mHealth) will likely have a greater effect     other industries—to one that is predic-
on how care is delivered for three reasons:     tive, personalised, participatory, and
                                                preventive.2 mHealth will be a major
   Mobile devices are ubiquitous and
                                                factor in providing personal toolkits
   personal;
                                                that will ultimately help those manage
   Competition will continue to drive lower     predicted vulnerabilities, chronic illness,
   pricing and increase functionality; and      and episodic acute conditions. Enabled by
                                                technology, connectivity and data, mass
   Mobility by its very nature implies that
                                                customisation is on the horizon allowing
   users are always part of a network,
   which radically increases the variety,
   velocity, volume and value of informa-
                                                In recognition of these accelerating
   tion they send and receive.
                                                factors, PwC commissioned the Economist
                                                Intelligence Unit (EIU) to examine the
Even before the advent of mobile connec-
                                                current state and potential of mHealth,
tivity the distinct lines between traditional
                                                barriers to adoption, and opportunities
health sectors were blurring and new
                                                for companies seeking growth in the
business models were emerging. mHealth
                                                mHealth space. The result is the following
is dropping into a ‘perfect storm’, enabling
                                                report based on surveys and interviews
and accelerating three major global trends
                                                with key subject matter experts conducted
already in play in healthcare.
                                                by the EIU.
Regulatory reform driven by demographic
                                                In addition to the EIU’s analysis, PwC
changes, such as ageing and chronic
                                                provided its own commentary on best
illness, is redressing the balance between
                                                practices and strategic considerations for
public and private sector participation in
                                                companies active in the mHealth arena
healthcare. More and more, the public
                                                noted in the report as ‘PwC Perspectives’.
sector, while seeking to optimise access
                                                We hope that these insights, coupled
and quality, is looking towards the private

                                                summarised in the pages to come, are
mHealth enables both sectors in this
                                                useful in helping the stakeholders in the
regard, helping to improve access and
                                                industry understand, plan and participate
quality while at the same time providing
                                                in this inevitable yet exciting new future.
dramatic innovation and cost reduction
opportunities.




1 Number of mobile phones end of 2011:          2 Lee Hood, “Vision for Systems Medicine:
  5.98bn. International Telecommunication         Predictive, Personalized, Preventive and
  Union (ITU). Key Global Telecom Indicators      Participatory (P4)” http://sis.org/cases2007/
  for the World Telecommunication Service         SIS2007ConferenceHighlights-Hood/docs/
  Sector, 2012.                                   HoodLeroy.pdf
Table of contents



  Sidebar: About the research



  The current landscape
  Expectation versus reality




  Sidebar: Early adopters: driven or desperate?




  Greater need and fewer options
  Emerging solutions
  Sidebar: A tale of two countries—India and the UK



  Finding and proving a need
  From incremental to disruptive change
  Picking up the tab
  Sidebar: Does it work? Does that matter?
2   Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




                                         List of interviewees
                                                                            ,                  , Business Solutions
                                          President, Brazilian Health             Architect, Healthcare Unit, SAP
                                          Informatics Association
                                                                                           , Head of Vodafone
                                                        , Managing Director,      mHealth Solutions, Vodafone
                                          Cell-Life
                                                                                          , Policy Adviser, US Food
                                                  , Head of Member and            and Drug Administration (FDA)
                                          Consumer Engagement, Aetna
                                                                                                 , Chief Executive
                                                        , Chief Operating

                                                                                            , Regents’ Professor
                                                     , Director of Health         and Del E Webb Chair in Health
                                          Innovation, Intel                       Innovation, Arizona State University

                                                                                              , Executive Director of
                                                                                  Operations, Apollo Hospitals (India)
                                                                  , Head of
                                          Strategy, Siemens Healthcare India               , Director of the mHealth
                                                                                  Innovation Centre, University of
                                                      , Head of Healthcare, SAP   Manchester

                                                 , Professor of Computer                    , Managing Director,
                                          Science, Cambridge University           Acibadem Mobile

                                                    , Head of China Healthcare,                   , Head of Orange
                                          Barclays Capital                        Healthcare, Orange

                                                        , Executive Director,
                                          mHealth Alliance
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Executive summary
Mobile healthcare (mHealth) is “the         their interests. The challenge will be                                            -
biggest technology breakthrough of our      even greater for innovators because                                  Patients in these
time [being used] to address our greatest   the improvements that mHealth can              markets are much more likely to use
national challenge”, said US Health and     bring—such as patient-centred care             mHealth applications or services than
Human Services Secretary, Kathleen          and a greater focus on prevention—will         those in developed countries. Similarly,
Sebelius in her keynote address at the      involve disruption of how healthcare is        more emerging-market doctors offer
2011 annual mHealth Summit in the           provided. To succeed, innovators must          mHealth services than colleagues in
Washington, DC area. Worldwide, the         manoeuvre through culturally conserva-         developed countries, and more payers
technology and its promise have moved       tive, highly regulated and fragmented          cover these costs. The ability of these
up the healthcare agenda.                   yet often monopolistic systems that            countries to leap ahead lies in the
                                            often provide contradictory incentives.        paucity of existing healthcare: there is
The interest is understandable.                                                            greater demand for change and, just as
Increasingly ubiquitous and powerful                                                       important, there are fewer entrenched
mobile technology holds the poten-                                                         interests to impede the adoption of new
tial to address long-standing issues in                       Patients want more           approaches.
healthcare provision. However, such         convenient provision of healthcare,
                                            but they also want greater control. For
business models suggests that, yet again,   doctors, mHealth can help provide better                         Widespread mHealth
technology-driven hype may lead to          patient care and ease their administrative     adoption requires services and products
expensive failures.                         headaches, but they are likely to resist the   that appeal to current payers because
                                            loss of power implicit in greater patient      patients, highly sensitive to price, will
This Economist Intelligence Unit report,    control. Payers already display interest in    provide little income. Consumers’ sense
commissioned by PwC, examines the           mHealth, and the economic pressure for         of entitlement with regard to health-
current state and potential of mHealth      more patient-centred, preventive care is       care aggravates this price sensitivity.
in developed and emerging markets,          likely to drive them further towards the       Accordingly, vendors must concentrate
the ongoing barriers to its adoption and    patient’s viewpoint.                           on solving payers’ problems. Technology
the implications for companies in the
                                                                                           this endeavour.




Roughly one-half of patients surveyed       In developing this report, commissioned by PwC, the Economist Intelligence Unit
for this report predict that mHealth        conducted two surveys in ten countries: Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, India,
will improve the convenience, cost and
quality of their healthcare in the next     patients—with a broad distribution of economic backgrounds, ages, levels of educa-
three years (see “About the research”).     tion and states of health—about their opinions on various aspects of mHealth. The
Meanwhile, six in ten doctors and payers    second survey queried 433 doctors and 345 executives from payer organisations.
believe that its widespread adoption in     The respondents in the doctor group were drawn from the public sector (46%) and
their countries is inevitable in the near   the private sector (49%) or were independent physicians (5%). The group is more
future. Yet most experts interviewed        urban (67%) than suburban (24%) or rural (10%), with 45% practicing in primary
for this study, while also convinced that   care, 45% in secondary care and 10% in tertiary care. The executives from payer
mHealth will eventually become an           organisations responding to the survey are roughly evenly divided between the
important part of care provision, expect    public and the private sector, with 55% C-suite or above.
that adoption will take time.
                                            In addition, the research included extensive desk research and 20 in-depth inter-
                                            views of senior executives from healthcare providers and payers, technology and
                                      -     telecommunications companies and industry organisations, as well as leading
                  New technology is         experts from academia, think-tanks and non-governmental organisations.
not enough. Widespread adoption of
mHealth will require changes in behav-      Finally, the EIU commissioned internal reports on mHealth for nine of the countries
iour of actors who are trying to protect    covered by the survey from its country experts.
4



    Introduction: Not so fast?
5




Excitement surrounding mHealth is             Chart 1: New mHealth Google hits in year
palpable. A burgeoning calendar of
events and exponential growth in web
                                                                                                                                                 *
                                                                                                                                             2012: 314,500 hits
rising intensity of interest (see chart 1).

The nature of the discussion is also          147,000 hits :2011
shifting. “About four years ago [mHealth
conferences] were just a few people in                                                                                                       2010: 48,800 hits
jeans meeting occasionally,” says Peter       27,500 hits :2009
Benjamin, Managing Director of Cell-                                                                                                         2008: 14,800 hits
                                              5,340 hits        :2007
Life, a South African non-governmental
                                                                                                                                             2006:        2,750 hits
organisation (NGO) developing mHealth
technology. “Three years ago proper
                                              *Estimate for all of 2012 taken by multiplying pre-March 27 figure by 5
doctors started to show up; about two

randomised controlled trials; and
last year the suits got involved so that
many mHealth conferences are now
dominated by [corporate] executives
                                              Chart 2: Subscribers per 100 inhabitants (penetration) for 10 countries
[discussing return on investment].”
                                                 1 billion
                                                                                                                                          China
This growing interest rests on the
assumption that two phenomena—the             800 million                                                                                 India
ubiquity of wireless technology and the
imperative need to transform healthcare                                                                                                   Brazil
                                              600 million
provision—will inevitably intersect. The
                                                                                                                                          Turkey
change will be profound.
                                              400 million
                                                                                                                                          South Africa

                                              200 million
By late 2011 the world’s roughly seven
billion people already had just shy of                  0
                                                             2000   2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2007   2008   2009   2010
six billion mobile-phone subscriptions,
more than one-sixth with mobile broad-
band, according to the International          300 million                                                                                 United States
Telecommunication Union (see chart
                                              250 million                                                                                 Germany
2). Connections are likely to outnumber
people by 2013. Omnipresent in the                                                                                                        United Kingdom
                                              200 million
developed world, this technology is
increasingly widespread in developing         150 million
                                                                                                                                          Spain
countries as well.
                                                                                                                                          Denmark
                                              100 million
Connectivity is just part of the story.
Misha Chellam, Chief Operating                 50 million

                                                        0
company, explains the value of ubiqui-                       2000   2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2007   2008   2009   2010
tous infrastructure for innovators: in
                                              Source: International Telecommunication Union, April 2012
6     Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




building attachments for the phone, they    In emerging markets, the situation            The impact of mHealth on relationships
“are riding on the back of an incredible    is both worse and more hopeful.               with patients will be about as big as that
amount of investment; there is a billing    Inadequate health infrastructure limits       of the Internet, doctors say.
model, connectivity and a user inter-       much of the rural population and urban
face people are trained on”. So much        poor to, at best, only the most basic         Pilot projects around the world point
communication and computing power           care. However, rapid economic growth          to the plethora of possibilities. These
in so many hands should drive provi-        is driving citizens to demand more.           range from the Patient Link programme
sion of always-on, anywhere service in      India’s government, for example, faces        in Tianjin, China, which gives rural
                                            increasing pressure to raise health-          patients access to medical profes-
                                            care spending. Jason Mann, Barclays           sionals, to a host of programmes
Meanwhile, the healthcare sector is ill-    Capital’s Head of China healthcare, says      across Africa that educate the public
suited for modern needs. In developed       that health is now a hot-button issue         about AIDS through SMS messages, to
countries, hospital-centric systems focus   for that country’s government too. “Its       SmokefreeTXT in the US, which helps
largely on acute care even while chronic    legitimacy is somewhat tied up with its       young Americans to give up smoking.
conditions dominate the disease load.       ability to provide broad and inexpensive
Population ageing will only exacerbate      healthcare across China,” he explains.        Most experts interviewed for this study,
the challenge. Moreover, healthcare                                                       however, are much more cautious.
services are frequently disjointed and                                                    “We all need to come back down to
                                                                                          earth,” says Patricia Mechael, Executive
ignore wider patient needs.                 Expectations are high that mobile tech-       Director of the mHealth Alliance, a
                                            nology will help to increase access to        multi-stakeholder group dedicated to
Economic problems have raised aware-        care in emerging markets and transform        advancing mHealth. “My forecast is
ness of the high cost of these inadequate   the developed world’s costly healthcare       that in the next year the hype cycle
systems. Healthcare spending in the         behemoths into less expensive, preven-        will reach its peak, we will then move
OECD has risen in the last decade from      tion-based and patient-focused systems.       into the trough of disillusionment, and
an average of 7.8% of the region’s GDP to   The surveys conducted for this research       then move back up to a happier place.”
9.7%. Of this, typically about 70% comes    programme found that although patients        Steinar Pedersen, Chief Executive
out of increasingly constrained govern-     see relatively modest change so far,
ment budgets. Jennifer Dixon, Director      large numbers expect that mHealth will        adds that currently “you have a research
                                        -                                                 environment that produces papers, a
care think-tank, notes that although        is delivered in the next three years (see     business environment that produces
areas such as telemedicine and eHealth      chart 3). Roughly one-half predict that       expectations, and a healthcare environ-
are not new, the focus on such solutions    it will improve the convenience (52%),        ment that creates healthcare. So far they
“has had a particular impetus in the last   cost (46%) and quality (48%) of their         have not met. This will happen, but how
three years because of the economic         healthcare (see chart 4). Similarly, 59%      long it will take I’m not sure.”
downturn. More people are looking at        of doctors and payers believe that the
change in a way that we haven’t seen in     widespread adoption of mHealth in their       Such words of caution suggest that
the last 10 to 20 years.”                   countries is inevitable in the near future.   change, while certainly desirable




                                            health-related information through the use of mobile devices (typically mobile
                                            phones, but also other specialised medical mobile devices, like wireless monitors).
                                            Mobile applications and services can include, among other things, remote patient
                                            monitors, video conferencing, online consultations, personal healthcare devices,
                                            wireless access to patient records and prescriptions.

                                            A broad variety of stakeholders take part in mHealth. They include patients and
                                            patient advocacy groups; healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, and other
                                            professionals who patients see as part of normal healthcare); institutions where care
                                            is provided (hospitals, clinics and others); payers (government and private); medical
                                            device companies; biopharma companies; technology companies (devices, appli-
                                            cations, software, infrastructure, data analytics and others); telecommunication
                                            services providers; pharmacies and other healthcare-related retail outlets; NGOs;
                                            regulators; policymakers; and a series of new entrants that include entrepreneurs
                                            and retailers.
Introduction: Not so fast?   7


Chart 3: Patients expect mHealth to change their healthcare experience

% of respondents who say that, in the next three years, mHealth will significantly change:

59% How I seek information on health issues

51% How providers or services send general healthcare information

49% How I manage my overall health

48% How I manage my chronic conditions

48% How my healthcare providers and I communicate

48% How I manage my medication

47% How I measure and share my vital health information

46% How healthcare providers monitor condition and compliance

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012


Chart 4: Patients say mHealth will improve convenience, quality and cost of
         healthcare

In the next three years, patients agree that:



            52%                             48%                             46%
     mHealth applications/           mHealth applications/           mHealth applications/
      services will make              services will improve        services will substantially
    healthcare substantially        the quality of healthcare      reduce my overall health-
    more convenient for me                  I receive             care costs (including linked
                                                                  costs like travel to and from
                                                                    the doctor or time off to
                                                                          go to clinics)



Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
                                            79%

and likely, is not simple. As with any          To meet current and future challenges,            If mHealth succeeds in delivering such
important new technology, mHealth               healthcare systems need disruptive                things as a greater focus on prevention,
can enable incremental innovation—              change. For mHealth to enable that,               better monitoring of chronic conditions
improvements to existing practices, or          though, it will have to deliver in the            and patient-centred care, its impact will
disruptive innovation—fundamental               teeth of an industry with a long history          be dramatic. But the scope of the task
changes that alter healthcare provi-            of effectively resisting disruption.              and the resistance it engenders should
sion. Professor Chris Taylor, Director          Clayton Christensen, one of the leading           not be underestimated. As Eric Dishman,
of the University of Manchester’s               scholars on innovation, once described            Intel’s Director of Health Innovation,
mHealth Innovation Centre, sees                 healthcare as perhaps “the most                   puts it: “mHealth is about fundamentally
“some quick wins to be had, that will           entrenched, change-averse industry                changing the social contract between
almost certainly come from the simpler,         in the US”.3 Analyses of other countries          patients and doctors. It will take time.”
more boring things”. For example, the           are similar.
increasingly common practice of texting
appointment reminders to patients
substantially reduces costs from missed
attendance. These innovations have                                                                3 Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer and
value, but they do not change the way                                                               John Kenagy, “Will disruptive innovations
medicine is delivered.                                                                              cure healthcare?” Harvard Business Review,
                                                                                                    September-October 2000.
8



    Colliding interests,
    competing visions
9




mHealth can be a powerful instrument,             which are highlighted by our surveys,
potentially altering relationships within         will shape the use of mHealth and the
the healthcare industry. But Sangita              speed of its adoption.
Reddy, Executive Director of Operations
at Apollo Hospitals in India, says that                                      Patients
mHealth’s “greatest uptake will be when           believe that mHealth offers them easier
it is just another methodology in the             access to care and more control over
healthcare cycle”.                                their own health (see charts 5 and 6).
                                                  But this would involve a substantial,
Mobile is thus a tool, not a new type of          disruptive move away from doctor-
medicine, and its meaning will emerge             directed care towards a patient-as-
from how it is applied within existing            consumer model. Clinicians would
healthcare systems. This will be deter-           remain important, but not always the
mined more by the interests of leading
healthcare stakeholders than by the               those who use mHealth services, 59%
actual technology. That means that the            say these have replaced some visits to
tension among these interests, many of            doctors or nurses.



Chart 5: Patients define mHealth in terms of access and control

How patients define mHealth

44% Use of mobile phone to learn about/monitor wellness (e.g., weight, diet, amount of exercise)

43% Contact between patient and healthcare provider by mobile phone or other device

42% Accessing health telephone call centres/advice lines/emergency services

29% Automated contact with my healthcare provider (e.g., reminders about appointments or to take medication)

25% Healthcare providers monitoring a specific patient condition (e.g., chronic disease)

18% Community health promotion or information initiatives sending messages to mobile phone

18% Medical professionals having remote access to electronic patient records

14% Support for medical professionals making decisions remotely

 5% Collecting patient data for clinical trials

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
10    Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




                                                  “Consumers are mobilised under the             exists, but it is not what conventional
                                                  banner of convenience and, where they          wisdom might predict. Among younger
                                                  pay out of their own pockets, they begin
                                                  to recognise cost,” says George Poste,         experience—53% are worried about
                                                  Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb             the potential for patient independence.
                                                  Chair in Health Innovation at Arizona          Perhaps they are more aware of the
                                                  State University. In this, patients simply     depth of change technology has brought
                                                  expect healthcare to catch up with other
                                                  service industries.                            positions makes them more sensitive to
                                                                                                 how vulnerable they are to disruption.
                                                  Nevertheless, it would involve disrup-         Twenty-four percent of these younger
                                                  tive change. Ozgur Turgay, Managing            doctors actively discourage patients
                                                  Director of Acibadem Mobile Health, one        from using mHealth applications to
                                                  of Turkey’s largest providers of mHealth       manage their own health.
                                                  services, calls it a revolution. “We are
                                                  creating a new environment in health-          Doctors are nevertheless embracing
                                                  care,” he says.                                some aspects of mHealth. A 2012
                                                                                                 survey of European doctors conducted
                                                                              While patients     by Manhattan Research, an organisa-
                                                  are pushing for change in healthcare,          tion that researches medical personnel,
                                                  our survey reveals doctors’ resistance to      found that 26% owned iPads and spent
                                                  disruption of their traditional roles. Only    over one-quarter of their professional
                                                  27% encourage patients to use mHealth          time using them. Its survey in the US
                                                  applications in order to become more           showed that in 2011 30% of surveyed
                                                  active in managing their health; 13%           doctors had an iPad, and 28% expected
                                                  actively discourage this.                      to buy one in the next six months.
                                                                                                 Uptake in emerging markets has also
                                                  Indeed, doctors are averse to a funda-         been strong. Cláudio Giulliano Alves da
                                                  mental change to the patient’s role            Costa, President of the Brazilian Health
                                                  (and power): 42% of doctors surveyed           Informatics Association, notes that
                                                  worry that mHealth will make patients          physicians often resist adopting new
                                                  too independent. A generational divide         information technology but, surpris-
                                                                                                 ingly, they have accepted tablets.




Chart 6: Patients will adopt mHealth if it improves access, lowers cost and increases control
Top drivers for patients to consider beginning to use or increasing use of mHealth applications/services

46% Ability to access my healthcare providers more conveniently/effectively

43% Ability to reduce my own healthcare costs

32% Ability to take greater control over my own health

28% Ability to obtain information that is difficult or impossible for me to obtain from other sources

25% Ability to access better quality healthcare

Source: Economi s t Intel l i gence Uni t, 2012
Colliding interests, competing visions   11



With most disruptive technologies, the early adopters tend to be those who are
ill-served by existing provision or not served at all. mHealth is no exception. The
two types of patients in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s survey most attracted
by its products and services are those with poorly managed chronic diseases and
those who pay more than 30% of their household income towards healthcare. Both
groups are better informed about mHealth, are much more likely to be using such
applications and services already, and are noticeably more willing to pay for them
(see chart 7). They are, however, also more likely to abandon these applications and

data for mHealth is urgently needed—not just to improve return on investment but
also to protect the potentially vulnerable from electronic quackery.

Chart 7: Necessity is the mother of adoption in mHealth
Patients with health issues are most likely to use mHealth products and services




                                                         Familiarity with term
                                                         “mHealth”
      49%              62%                  74%




                                                         Engage in mHealth
      64%              82%                  79%




                                                         Currently use one or
      47%              72%                  68%          more apps




     Survey average         Have poorly managed conditions

     Healthcare spending > 30% of income

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
12    Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




Doctors are buying into mobile tech-       Chart 8: mHealth is about contact with patient, say doctors
nology because it can help meet some of
                                           What doctors most associate with the term mob ile healthcare (mHealth)
their needs, such as monitoring patient
compliance, accessing records and          43% Contact between patient and healthcare provider by mobile phone or other device
communicating with colleagues (see
charts 8 and 9). One of the most popular   38% Monitoring of a patient’s condition or compliance with treatment regimen
medical apps, for example, is Medscape,
a free service which provides the latest   38% Medical professionals having remote access to electronic patient records
medical news and information about
diseases and drugs. While improvement      32% Support for medical professionals making decisions remotely
of care is a bigger driver than simple
convenience, doctors hope that it will     28% Automated contact between patient and healthcare provider
happen through streamlining, rather
than re-inventing, existing systems.       25% Use of mobile phone to learn about/monitor wellness

                                           22% Accessing health telephone call centres/advice lines/emergency services

                                           21% Community health promotion or information initiatives with messages to mobile phones

                                           15% Collecting patient data for clinical trials

                                           Source: Economi s t Intel l i gence Uni t, 2012



                                           Chart 9: Search for quality and efficiency are top incentives for doctors to
                                           adopt mHealth

                                           What would spur doctor adoption of mHealth

                                           36% Improved quality of care/better health outcomes

                                           32% Easier access to care for existing patients

                                           32% Reduction in administrative time for medical personnel, allowing greater time for patients

                                           29% More efficient internal processes/communication

                                           28% Ability to reach previously unreachable patients

                                           26% Patient expectations/demand

                                           25% Lower overall cost of care for patients

                                           17% Opportunity to provide new services/tap into new markets

                                           16% Ubiquity of smartphones and applications in all areas of life

                                           14% Encouragement by regulators

                                           13% Expectation/demand of medical personnel or employees

                                           Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
Colliding interests, competing visions   13



                  Fighting chronic disease through mobile coaching
PwC perspective



                  Chronic conditions are the leading causes of death and disability globally, putting an enormous and increasing
                  burden on most healthcare systems. Prevention and early intervention are a big step towards the ultimate aim of
                  making populations healthier through better lifestyles and increased compliance with their suggested care regimens.

                  and tools to modify behaviour in an engaging and sustainable way.

                  WellDoc Inc., a healthcare behavioural science and technology company, has created a system of instant and
                  longitudinal feedback and coaching driven by clinical, evidence-based guidelines and behaviour science.
                  A 2009-2010 US trial of the WellDoc system sought to reduce blood glucose levels in 163 patients suffering from
                  diabetes, with each participant receiving a glucose meter and supplies, along with a mobile phone application and
                  access to a web-based portal.

                  Patients can enter blood glucose levels and other self-care data into their phones—both ‘feature’ as well as ‘smart’—
                  and receive real-time responses from ‘virtual patient coach’ (in the form of an expert mobile/web-client and cloud-
                  based software system), providing assistance on managing the condition as well as more general tips on diet, exercise
                  and other aspects of their lifestyle. The system can also produce ongoing, evidence-based reports of great use to the
                  patients’ clinicians, helping them monitor their conditions more accurately.

                  The results showed a mean decline in A1c (glycated haemoglobin—the gold-standard measure for diabetes control)

                  seen, regardless of whether patients began the trial with a high or low A1c. By comparison, the US Food and Drug

                  has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration, works on the vast majority of data-enabled mobile phones
                  and can be integrated into the standard software and electronic health records used by doctors.4

                  With an estimated $218 billion spent annually on diabetes in the US,5 there is hope that this solution could enable
                  annual cost savings per patient of as much as US$10,000 in reduced healthcare charges and increased worker produc-
                  tivity. 6 7 8 In addition, this approach could allow patients to gain more control over their condition and make better
                  decisions on a daily basis, which should enhance the lives of millions of patients who suffer from diabetes. Remote-
                  based coaching of this kind also has considerable potential for other chronic diseases. Diabetes, obesity and hyperten-
                  sion are seen as the three chronic diseases with the highest potential for mobile management through the application
                  of phones and web-based solutions.




                  4 The impact of smartphone applications on the mobile health industry (vol. 2), Mobile health market, Report 2011-2016, research2guid-
                    ance, 9 January 2012.

                  5 Figures for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) and the American Diabetes Association, 2009.
                  6 Milliman, 2011.

                  7 Medication adherence leads to lower health care use and costs despite increased drug spending, Roebuck MC, et al. Health Affairs (Mill-
                    wood) (1):91-9, Jan 30 2011; Hospital Stays for Patients with Diabetes, Fraze T, et al. 2008; Statistical Brief #93. Healthcare Cost
                    and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Briefs [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (US); Aug
                    2006-2010.

                  8 Testa MA, et al.                                                                                                                      -
                    litus. JAMA 280 (17):1490-6, Nov 1998.
14   Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




Payers are likely to shift                                       Payers—which in      access to personalised information, to
                                          our survey include private insurance        making customers—especially those
even closer to the patient                companies and government entities           with high deductibles—aware of the
                                          which pay for healthcare services that      actual costs of their treatment choices.
position because they                     they or others provide—currently
will bear most of the                     occupy a middle ground. They are not        Payers are likely to shift even closer to
                                          so much interested in pure cost reduc-      the patient position because they will
economic consequences                     tion as value for money. This includes      bear most of the economic consequences
                                          a reduction in administrative burdens       if healthcare systems fail to reform.
if healthcare systems fail                for patients, as well as promoting better   Disruption is in their interest, and many
to reform                                 health through greater patient involve-
                                          ment in care (see charts 10 and 11).        healthcare. This includes a greater
                                          The ultimate aim of improved value          emphasis on wellness and prevention—
                                          for money may differ between private        areas where mHealth can help greatly.
                                          payers, who desire to reduce their
                                          spending, and public ones, who may          Many have launched their own
                                                                                      mHealth services. Others have bought
                                          the best treatment possible within that     popular ones. Aetna, for example,
                                                                                      has acquired iTriage, an application
                                          however, can appeal to both.
                                                                                      allows customers to research medical
                                                                                      symptoms, locate nearby healthcare
                                          payers are numerous. Dan Brostek, Head      providers and schedule appointments.
                                          of Member and Consumer Engagement           Mr Brostek points out that consumers
                                          at Aetna, a health insurer, notes that      increasingly expect mHealth solutions.
                                          these range from the administra-            By providing patients with the mobile
                                          tive savings from making commonly           capabilities they want, insurers can
                                          requested information easy to down-         differentiate themselves in a competi-
                                          load, to improving outcomes through         tive marketplace.
Colliding interests, competing visions   15


Chart 10: Patient at centre of mHealth, according to payers

What payers most associate with the term mobile healthcare (mHealth)

35% Contact between patient and healthcare provider by mobile phone or other device

31% Use of mobile phone to learn about/monitor wellness

30% Medical professionals having remote access to electronic patient records

28% Monitoring of a patient’s condition or compliance with treatment regimen

27% Automated contact between patient and healthcare provider

26% Support for medical professionals making decisions remotely

25% Community health promotion or information initiatives with messages to mobile phones

24% Accessing health telephone call centres/advice lines/emergency services

19% Collecting patient data for clinical trials

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012



Chart 11: Search for quality and efficiency are top incentives for payers to adopt mHealth

What would spur payer adoption of mHealth

30% Reduction in administrative time for medical personnel, allowing greater time for patients

29% Improved quality of care/better health outcomes

28% Lower overall cost of care for patients

26% Ability to reach previously unreachable patients

24% Easier access to care for existing patients

23% Patient expectations/demand

22% Opportunity to provide new services/tap into new markets

21% More efficient internal processes/communication

19%    Expectation/demand of medical personnel or employees

16% Ubiquity of smartphones and applications in all areas of life

16% Encouragement by regulators

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
16   Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




                                                                      The difference between doctors and
                                                                      patients, says Mr Pedersen, “is the

                                                                      Mr Chellam adds that such technology
                                                                      “changes the balance of power. It is
                                                                      not surprising that doctors would
                                                                      be concerned.”

                                                                      Payers, on the other hand, are using

                                                                      mHealth: 40% encourage patients to
                                                                      let doctors monitor them through such
                                                                      services, compared with just 25% of
                                                                      doctors. Moreover, although physicians
                                                                      frequently cite existing payment struc-
                                                                      tures as a barrier to their greater deploy-
                                                                      ment of mHealth, in most cases payers
                                                                      are much more likely to cover mHealth-
                                                                      related services than doctors are to
                                                                      provide them (see charts 12 and 13).

                                                                      Doctor resistance is likely to hold back
                                                                      some aspects of mHealth. This opposi-
                                                                      tion is all the more problematic because
                                                                      mHealth will also have to overcome
                                                                      myriad barriers that typically delay
                                                                      change, especially disruptive innovation
                                                                      in healthcare. Still, most interviewees
                                                                      point to the appearance of the Internet
                                                                      and believe that doctors will be unable
                                                                      to resist—especially as payers join
                                                                      patients in demanding change.




                                          Doctor resistance is likely to hold back some aspects
                                          of mHealth...still, most interviewees believe that
                                          doctors will be unable to resist—especially as payers
                                          join patients in demanding change
Colliding interests, competing visions   17


Chart 12: Doctors see promise in offering mHealth services

% of doctors who have begun to offer the following types of services via mobile devices, and which they would like to offer
                                                                                        Have       Would      Have no     Offer but Total*
                                                                                        begun      like to    plans to    intend to
                                                                                        to offer   offer      offer       stop

Telephone-based consultations                                                             38%        32%        28%           2%       100%


Administrative communication                                                              38%        45%        16%           1%       100%


Receiving data to monitor patient                                                         21%        51%        26%           1%       100%


Provide patients access to portions of their medical record                               17%        38%        44%           2%       100%


Drug adherence and other health-related communication                                     17%        51%        31%           1%       100%


Use of mobile device to explain/demonstrate during office visits                          17%        46%        37%           1%       100%


Text-based consultations                                                                  16%        31%        52%           1%       100%


Analysis of general health and wellness data gathered by mobile devices                   13%        48%        37%           1%       100%


Video consultations                                                                        8%        44%        47%           1%       100%


*Numbers may differ due to rounding
Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012



Chart 13: Payers support diverse mHealth services, and plan to support even more

% of payers who say their organisation has begun to pay for the following types of services provided via mobile devices, and which it intends
to pay for in the next three years

                                                                                        Have     Plan to       Have no    Pay for, Total*
                                                                                        begun to pay for       plans to   but
                                                                                        pay for  in next       pay for    intend to
                                                                                                 3 years                  stop

Telephone-based consultations                                                              37%        31%        29%          4%       100%


Administrative communication                                                               36%        33%        28%          3%       100%


Access by patients to portions of his or her medical record                                32%        38%        27%          3%       100%


Drug adherence and other health-related communication                                      31%        37%        28%          4%       100%


Text-based consultations                                                                   30%        34%        31%          4%       100%


Analysis of general health and wellness data gathered by the patient’s mobile devices      30%        36%        30%          4%       100%


Medical professionals receiving data as part of patient monitoring                         29%        41%        27%          4%       100%


Video consultations                                                                        22%        38%        37%          3%       100%

*Numbers may differ due to rounding
Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
18



     Healthcare innovation:
     A school of patience
19




Innovation in healthcare—particularly           doctors and payers list privacy and
disruptive reorganisations of processes,        security concerns as leading barriers to
care pathways and even job responsi-            greater use of mHealth, and only around
                                                half of doctors believe that the mobile
Although mHealth has a broad range of           Internet facilities at their workplace are
                                                reasonably secure.
set of powerful barriers also exists.
These are both diverse—ranging from             Poor integration also impedes uptake.
technology to culture, from incentive           Just 53% of doctors say that the mHealth
structures to regulations—and mutu-             applications and services they use work
ally reinforcing.                               with their organisation’s information
                                                technology (IT), and even fewer say they
              Technology still presents         are integrated with technology in other
challenges for mHealth adopters. Both           parts of the health system (see chart 14).




Chart 14: Poor integration of IT systems impedes uptake of mHealth

% of respondents who say mHealth applications and services they use at their organisation are well integrated
with the following

53% IT systems of my organisation (e.g., the medical practice where I work)

37% IT systems of local hospitals and clinics

27% IT system of the national healthcare system in my country

23% IT systems accessible by colleagues in other organisations (e.g., academia, other medical practices)

15% Health data systems that patients can access directly

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
20   Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




“It is very easy from                     Lack of interoperability between tech-                 Technological issues fade next
                                          nologies is often to blame. Claudius         to the complexities of bringing about
the technology point of                   Metze, Business Solutions Architect in       change in healthcare, however. “It is
                                          the Healthcare Unit at SAP, Germany-         very easy from the technology point of
view to say that this is                  based enterprise software company,           view to say that this is the future, but
the future but [those                     notes that almost every healthcare           [those saying so] don’t take into account
                                          customer has “many disparate systems         the traditions and the complexity of the
saying so] don’t take into                that are hard to integrate, and where        healthcare system,” says Mr Pedersen.
                                          only the vendor knows the secret of how      Electronic health records, for example,
account the traditions                    to get data out”.                            have been on the cusp of revolutionising
and the complexity of the                                                              care since 1985, but in most countries
                                          Nor will technological issues ever           they have been unable to break through
healthcare system.”                       completely disappear. Mr Brostek             these broader barriers to change.
                                          explains that one of the biggest chal-
                                          lenges in mHealth is the rapid change        In fact, 27% of doctors and 26% of payers
                                          in consumer technology and adoption          cite an inherently conservative culture
                                          behaviours: “When a new operating            as a leading barrier to mHealth. Thierry
                                          system comes out, people almost expect       Zylberberg, Head of France Telecom’s
                                          within a month that its new capabilities     Orange Healthcare, notes that this is not
                                          will be layered into your applications. It
                                          is complex to move at that speed.”           by consensus precisely because if innova-
                                                                                       tion does not work out as planned, the
                                                                                       risks to human health can be substantial
Healthcare innovation: A school of patience   21


Chart 15: A technology gap exists between private and public sectors

Doctors with access to wireless    Doctors without access to   Doctors who think lack
Internet at work                   mobile Internet at work     of necessary technology
                                                               is a leading barrier to
                                                               greater adoption of
                                                               mHealth applications/
             63%                                               services at work


                                                                        40%
                                            33%



             40%                            14%                         27%


    Private sector         Public sector

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012




But no matter how understandable the          State control is particularly relevant for
roots of such a cautious approach, it can     mHealth. Ongoing government retrench-
                                              ment has created a technological gap
change, even one that does not carry          that will slow adoption. Lack of existing
much risk.                                    technology is the biggest barrier to
                                              greater use of mHealth, according to the
                       Most national          public-sector doctors and payers surveyed
health systems are both vast and              (see chart 15). One-third of public-sector
fragmented. The UK’s National Health          doctors do not even have mobile Internet
System (NHS), for example, is the             at work, compared with 14% in the
seventh-largest employer worldwide            private sector. Obtaining the economic
and Europe’s biggest, but decision-
making powers are diffuse. Ian Leslie,        governments to invest more to catch up
Professor of Computer Science at              technologically.
Cambridge University and an expert
in mHealth in China, notes that one                         The highly regulated nature
strategy for mHealth entrepreneurs is,        of healthcare also hinders innovation.
as much as possible, to “avoid inter-         For rapidly changing technologies, the
acting with the humongous thing” that         problem is frequently either a regula-
is the health system.                         tory void—which increases risk for
                                              providers—or the application of inappro-
                                              priate regulations from earlier technolo-
change in one country is not necessarily      gies: 45% of payers and doctors believe
helpful elsewhere, because systems            that the latter is holding up mHealth.
vary markedly. They frequently include
dominant monopolies, substantial state        Bakul Patel, a policy adviser at the US
control and high costs for and regula-        Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
tory barriers to new entrants, all of         notes that his organisation wants to
which are inimical to entrepreneur-           support mHealth and is developing
driven innovation.                            new ways to deal with the attendant
22   Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




                                          regulatory challenges. For example, to
                                          allow faster innovation, the FDA has         a broad variety of stakeholders—
                                          broken new ground by issuing a descrip-
                                          tion of low-risk mHealth areas, such as      pharmacies, purchasers and mobile-
                                          patient self-management, that would          phone companies that carry the data
                                          not be regulated, even if they meet the
                                                                                   -   not found a commercially viable model.
                                          edges that regulators continue to face a     Pharmaceutical companies provide some
                                          pressing challenge in seeking to balance     sponsorship, but the programme also
                                                                                       relies on prize money, grants and dona-
                                                                                       tions of low-cost or pro bono services
                                          more work in terms of how regulators         from a variety of companies.
                                          can add value to this ecosystem. As part
                                          of that effort we are developing a new       More daunting still is the ability of
                                          framework for the small subset of high-
                                          risk mHealth devices that will be able
                                          to accommodate the rapid innovation          solutions you need to understand what
                                          cycles of these technologies.”               is in it for the person who pays your bill
                                                                                       and, even more important, you need to
                                                                 Perhaps the           understand whose toes you are stepping
                                                                                       on, and how to turn it into a situation
                                          healthcare is the complex incentive          where everybody wins,” says Axel
                                          arrangements that have created and           Nemetz, Head of Vodafone mHealth
                                          continue to reinforce current systems.       Solutions. He recalls one project that
                                          An mHealth product will only be              clearly provided superior care for the
                                          adopted if a stakeholder sees an advan-      patient at home and had the support of
                                                                                       medical personnel. Hospital adminis-
                                          purchaser is not always straightforward.
                                                                                       initially sought to block the scheme
                                          One of the best-known mHealth                because they would lose income from
                                          services, run by Ghana-based NGO             the resultant reduction in hospital-based
                                                                                       services. In the end, compensation work-
                                                                                       arounds were developed in the interests
                                          mHealth innovation. The service allows       of patients and other stakeholders.
                                          consumers purchasing drugs in certain        This is not an isolated incident, but
                                          parts of Africa to text a coded number       rather traditional behaviour inside the
                                          on the packaging to the service, which       health sector, where actors use diverse
                                          will either verify that the product is       economic, regulatory and organisational
                                          legitimate or warn that it is counterfeit.   levers to protect themselves.
PwC perspective                                                                                          Healthcare innovation: A school of patience   23




                  It’s hard to overestimate the cost of counterfeiting. One expert believes that the global market for fakes could be worth
                  between US$75-$200 billion—a year 9 in lost revenue for pharmaceutical companies. The practice could even jeop-
                  ardise national and international investment in research manufacturing facilities, marketing and distribution.

                  However the biggest cost is arguably to society as a whole in the form of additional treatment and especially in lost
                  lives of those who could otherwise have made a productive contribution to a nation’s wealth over a lifetime. The
                  200,000 deaths a year attributed to malaria alone could potentially cost billions to the countries affected. The WHO
                  estimates that malaria can decrease annual gross domestic product (GDP) by as much as 1.3% in countries with high
                  levels of transmission, while in some countries the disease accounts for up to 40% of public health expenditures,
                  30-50% of inpatient hospital admissions and up to 60% of outpatient health clinic visits.10

                  Given these staggering sums, it’s no surprise that there are concerted efforts to help health systems and the pharma-
                  ceutical industry secure the global supply chain for drugs. The WHO has been working with government agencies and
                  manufacturers around the world to create a database of products, giving each packet of medicine a unique number.
                  And a new initiative from mobile phone company Orange (part of France Telecom), these markings can now be
                  tracked at any point in the distribution pipeline using widely available and relatively inexpensive technology.

                  The system is a collaboration between Orange and a non-governmental organisation called m-Pedigree and is simple
                  for users and/or clinicians. Each pack has a batch number and expiry date, along with a one-time code that is only
                  revealed by scratching the covering ink. The code number is sent by SMS to a server, which sends an instant response
                  verifying whether the drug is real or fake.

                  The code on the packages is a one-off encrypted number that incorporates the batch code and expiry date, so the
                  system is relatively foolproof.

                  The costs are minimal and initial trials in Kenya have been very successful, with thousands of messages sent to the
                  server, suggesting that such an approach has a huge potential for wider application in both emerging and mature

                  organisations, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies.

                  While the many initiatives underway have experienced various levels of success, the results are positive for
                  mHealth overall.



                  9 “Poison pills: Counterfeit drugs used to be a problem for poor countries. Now they threaten the rich world, too,” The Economist,
                    2 September 2010.

                  10 WHO estimates http://www.who.int/mediacentre
24



     Emerging markets,
     emerging solutions
25




                                            Chart 16: Patients are more aware of mHealth in emerging markets
of innovation in healthcare are
                                            % of patients who are familiar with the terms “mobile health” or “mHealth”
neither insurmountable nor universal.
Disruptive innovation typically occurs                           Yes                                              No
on the fringes of a sector, where
consumers have fewer resources and                             61%                                                63%
entrenched interests are weaker or non-
existent. mHealth is no exception.

Mobile healthcare solutions are being
deployed more rapidly in emerging
markets than in developed economies.
“We see it on the ground in countries
we work with. While the US thinks                              37%                                                39%
about dealing with fundamental issues
like secure electronic health records,           Developed markets             Emerging markets
in places like India, China and Singapore
mHealth is taking place,” says              Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
Mr Dishman.

In the emerging markets surveyed,           Chart 17: Emerging market patients have great expectations of mHealth
patient awareness and expectations
of mHealth are, on average, far higher      % of respondents who say that in the next three years, mHealth will change:
than in developed countries (see charts
                                            How I seek information on health issues
16, 17, 18). More important, far more                                                           53%                            64%
patients are already using mHealth:
59% of emerging-market patients use at      How healthcare providers or services send me
                                            general healthcare information                      49%                            54%
least one mHealth application or service,
compared with 35% in the developed
                                            How I manage my overall health (e.g., track my
world, and among those who do not,                                                              42%                       57%
                                            weight and exercise)
emerging-market residents are more
interested in starting (see chart 19).      How I measure and share my vital health
                                            information (e.g., heart rate, blood glucose)       43%                      52%

                                            How I manage my medication
                                                                                                41%                      55%

                                            How I manage any chronic conditions that I have
                                                                                                42%                      54%

                                            How my healthcare providers and I communicate
                                            about my overall health or chronic condition        42%                      54%

                                            How my healthcare providers monitor my
                                            condition and my compliance with directions         40%                      53%


                                                 Developed markets             Emerging markets

                                            Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
26   Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




                                          Chart 18: Patients in emerging markets are more optimistic of mHealth to
                                          their overall care

                                          % of patients who agree with the following statements:

                                          I expect that mHealth                I expect that mHealth         I expect that mHealth
                                          applications/services will           applications/services will    applications/services will
                                          substantially reduce my overall      make healthcare substan-      improve the quality of
                                          healthcare costs in the next         tially more convenient for    healthcare I receive in the
                                          three years.                         me in the next three years.   next three years.


                                                       53%                                57%                          54%




                                                       40%                                48%                          42%

                                               Developed markets               Emerging markets

                                          Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012




                                          Chart 19: Interest is high among emerging market patients who do not yet use
                                          mHealth

                                          % of patients who would be interested in using the following types
                                          of mHealth applications/services

                                          Applications/services that help me manage my
                                          own well being (e.g., track weight or calorie       37%                      57%
                                          intake) through entering data manually
                                          Applications/services that help me manage my
                                          own well being (e.g., track weight or calorie       28%               46%
                                          intake) and get their data automatically
                                          Applications/services that help me communicate
                                          better with healthcare professionals                54%                               61%

                                          Applications/services that integrate with medical
                                          devices to send data on my condition to             28%                  51%
                                          healthcare professionals
                                          Applications/services that gather general
                                          information on healthcare, including drugs          44%                      57%

                                               Developed markets            Emerging markets

                                          Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
Emerging markets, emerging solutions   27



                  Reaching out through mHealth and making healthcare available to masses
PwC perspective


                                                                                                                                        -



                  Apollo Hospitals Group in India is aware that its private hospitals can only serve a small proportion of India’s huge 1.2
                  billion population. However, with 900 million owning a mobile phone11, the opportunity for de-monopolising health-

                  lifecycle state of providing basic education and awareness along with primary care would make quality healthcare
                  reach millions who currently have no access to physicians.

                                                                                                                                    -
                  medics, physiotherapists, nurses, doctors and health advisers, using an IT platform with a structured query database
                  to give an appropriate health response. This service is offered in collaboration with leading telecommunications
                  companies, and has the following track record:

                     Over 700,000 calls handled by the triage service since it launched.

                     Country-wide coverage, reaching a potential audience of 70 million, 24 hours a day and 7 days per week.

                     2G-based and provisioning for 3G-based video consultations.

                  As a next step, Apollo is trialling remote analytics through a range of devices monitoring symptoms such as blood

                  health system’ that also includes lifestyle, diet and educational support.

                  For example, with their diabetes management program called SUGAR, diabetics may upload their blood sugar count
                  to the clinician through SMS and mobile applications, with an SMS text delivered back to the patient explaining the
                  readings and advising whether further action is required. Further support comes from the contact centre staffed by
                  medical professionals, and customers also have access to customised personal health records. Early signs are encour-
                  aging, with the diabetes monitoring in particular raising compliance to an appropriate diet and exercise regime, with
                  plans for further expansion.

                  Over time the network will become more integrated to link health providers, payers and mobile phone suppliers with
                  new phone customers asked to enter health records at point of purchase as a standard procedure, and a button on the
                  phone to access the telehealth provider at a single touch. And by partnering with health insurance companies, Apollo
                  hopes to make mHealth an integral part of the cure process and not an alternate method of care.




                  11 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, 2011
28    Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




Payers and doctors in emerging markets     Finally, while ‘pilotitis’ remains an        so few doctors overall, and is especially
are also more active in mHealth. More      ongoing problem in developed countries,      relevant in India, China and South
payers currently cover the costs of, or    the scale of mHealth projects is starting    Africa, where so much of the population
plan to pay for, every mHealth-related     to grow in emerging markets. Brazil’s        lives in the countryside. In such rural
service in the survey than do their                                                     areas, medical care is often provided, if
counterparts in wealthier countries (see   allows ambulances across the country         at all, by those with only the most basic
chart 20). Doctors in these markets,       to send cardiograms to the telemedicine      of training.
meanwhile, are more likely to have         unit of a specialist heart hospital in São
some form of mobile Internet at work                                                    In emerging markets care is also often
and to have their own applications inte-   diagnosis to guide emergency treatment.      expensive: 53% of patients there
grated with local and national health-     In Turkey, Acibadem Mobile runs an           cite cost as a driver of greater use of
care data systems.                         mHealth nutrition service with 450,000       mHealth, compared with 34% in devel-
                                           members, and in less than two years an       oped countries. In many cases mobile
mHealth already has brought about          emergency healthcare service offered         technology is the only viable tool to
substantial change in the doctor-patient   in conjunction with Turkish Telecom          reach people. As Dr Benjamin points
relationship for 27% of emerging-market    has grown to 100,000 members. In             out: “The cell phone in Europe is a nice
doctors (compared with 16% in devel-       Mexico, meanwhile, Medicall Home has         gadget, but a substitution for other tech-
oped countries) and a marked internal                                                   nology. For a majority of Africa it is not
restructuring of their workplace for       a month on their phone bills in order to     a substitution for anything, but [rather]
34% (compared with 19%). Collectively,     access medical advice. Finally, South        the only access.”
doctors and payers in emerging markets     Africa is preparing to launch a national
are also much more likely to recommend     mHealth-enabled programme to                 This is also true in much of Asia.
patients use mHealth either on their       increase HIV/AIDS screening. Such proj-      Bangladesh’s Grameenphone, in
own or to let medical personnel monitor    ects suggest that mHealth is maturing        co-operation with the Telephone
their conditions (68% to 59%). In China    beyond basic experimentation.                Reference Centre, set up Healthlink to
                                                                                        allow its customers (and others using
to eight out of ten.                                                                    village phone centres) to talk with a
                                                                                        doctor any time of day or night. It is not
The scope of mHealth is also broader       Overwhelming necessity helps explain         surprising that, in a country with less
in emerging markets. Mobile tech-          the more rapid adoption of mHealth in        than one doctor per 4,000 people, the
nology has proved particularly effec-      emerging markets. “In mature markets,
tive in public health activities, such     [healthcare involves] a luxury problem:      the last six years.
as outbreak-tracking in remote areas.                                           -
The data-gathering programme in            ment in the hospital, in the physician’s     The lack of healthcare infrastructure
Brazil’s Amazonas State, for example,                                                   means that emerging markets do not face
provided nearly real-time information      the challenge is completely different,”      the challenge of entrenched interests
on outbreaks of dengue fever that previ-   says Mr Nemetz.                              that can impede mHealth in developed
ously took one to two months to collate.                                                countries. Barriers to change remain, of
                                           The number of doctors per head in the        course: China’s hospital system is notori-
Ms Mechael expects mHealth in many         surveyed countries gives some indica-                                                 -
emerging countries to support front-       tion of the disparity (see chart 21), but    cult. Overall, though, Mr Leslie notes:
line health workers before it addresses    the distribution of medical personnel        “In the developed world, the problem is
                                           makes it even starker. Doctors world-        this enormous medical infrastructure
this: 29% of public-sector health execu-   wide tend to concentrate in urban            that is very conservative and resistant to
tives in emerging markets associate the    areas. This has a particular impact in       change. In emerging markets, you have
term mHealth with community health         developing countries where there are         a lot of the drivers of innovation without
promotion or education, the third most                                                  the barriers.”
common choice for that group.
Emerging markets, emerging solutions   29


Chart 20: More mHealth services are covered by payers in emerging
markets than in developed countries
                                                                         Overwhelming necessity
                                                                         helps explain the more
% of respondents who say their organisation has started to pay for
the following types of services provided via mobile devices              rapid adoption in
Telephone-based consultations                              Difference*   emerging markets
29%                                                          14%

43%
Access by patients to portions of his/her medical record
25%                                                 14%

39%
Administrative communication (e.g., appointment reminders)
34%                                                           5%

38%
Text-based consultations
23%                                             14%

37%
Drug adherence and other health-related communication
24%                                              12%

37%
Analysis of general health and wellness data gathered by the
patient’s mobile devices
23%                                            12%

35%
Medical professionals receiving data as part of patient monitoring
23%                                          10%

33%
Video consultations
21%                                 3%

24%
     Developed markets            Emerging markets

*Numbers may differ due to rounding
Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
30   Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth




                                          Chart 21: mHealth adoption may reflect relative need

                                          Doctors per 1,000 population in 2012




                                                                                                                                                    Spain
                                                                                                                                          Germany
                                                                                                                 Unied States


                                                                                                                                Denmark
                                                                                            United Kingdom
                                                                                   Turkey
                                                                          Brazil
                                                   South Africa


                                                                  China
                                           India




                                          0.59     0.60           1.10    1.30     1.71     2.15                 3.31           3.49      3.80      4.68

                                          Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012




                                          Ms Reddy, who oversaw the growth of                                warns patients and their caregivers
                                          Apollo’s mHealth business, adds: “When                             when the former fail to take prescribed
                                          you have no legacy, it is easy to build.”                          drugs, is very similar in concept to
                                          She notes that “in emerging markets,                               SIMpill, a South African product that
                                          higher penetration of mobility is coupled                          appeared several years before. Similarly
                                          with increasing acceptance of the tool                             Text4Baby—a free, multi-stakeholder
                                          as a medium to interact and exchange                               service sending relevant information
                                          information. Healthcare services need to                           to pregnant mothers—is one of the
                                          ride this wave to ensure quality health-                           few mHealth programmes to reach
                                          care is available to masses irrespective                           substantial scale in the US. Its design
                                          of the patient location.”                                          drew on Mexico’s VidaNet service (for
                                                                                                             patients with HIV/AIDS) and Kenya’s
                                          Finally, these emerging markets are                                MobileforGood Health Tips. Technology
                                                                               -                             transfer from emerging countries is
                                          nological infrastructure to engage in                              likely to continue.
                                          mHealth, and have populations with
                                          expectations of improved care. Looking                             More important, the development of
                                          at all the factors in emerging markets                             mHealth in emerging-market coun-
                                          together, Mr Leslie concludes: “In some                            tries can accelerate the development of
                                          ways, you can’t think of better condi-                                                                   -
                                          tions. Why waste time in the West?”                                nology companies, telecoms operators,
                                                                                                             payers and others—that analysts agree
                                                                                                             are essential for mHealth’s long-term
                                                                                                             success. Given mHealth’s digital nature,
                                          Emerging markets are likely to be the                              an ecosystem will not be restricted by
                                          seedbed of innovation—an advantage                                 national boundaries. This will eventu-
                                          they can leverage in the global market.                            ally allow participants to support disrup-
                                          Two of the best-known American                                     tion in a host of markets. The future of
                                          mHealth services follow emerging-                                  Western healthcare may be developing
                                          market examples. GlowCaps, a tool that                             in emerging markets today.
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Emerging mHealth: Opportunities and challenges in mobile health

  • 1. Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth A global research study about the opportunities and challenges of mobile health from the perspective of patients, payers and providers www.pwc.com/mhealth
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  • 3. We live in a world that’s connected wire- Industrialisation of the healthcare lessly with almost as many cellular phone sector, already in motion, and driven by subscriptions as there are people on the technologies such as electronic medical planet. According to the International records, remote monitoring and commu- Telecommunication Union, there were nication platforms, etc. is in many ways almost 6 billion mobile phones in use worldwide in late 2011.1 The ubiquity mHealth. Patient-centric, ‘care anywhere’ is of mobile technology offers tremendous becoming a reality. opportunities for the healthcare industry to address one of the most pressing global Healthcare is moving towards a precision- challenges: making healthcare more acces- based model—or ‘personalised medicine’. sible, faster, better and cheaper. As a result of greater understanding of the human genome, together with other Unlike many other forms of communica- personalised technologies, the industry tion, such as the Internet, mobile health will likely transform—as have many (mHealth) will likely have a greater effect other industries—to one that is predic- on how care is delivered for three reasons: tive, personalised, participatory, and preventive.2 mHealth will be a major Mobile devices are ubiquitous and factor in providing personal toolkits personal; that will ultimately help those manage Competition will continue to drive lower predicted vulnerabilities, chronic illness, pricing and increase functionality; and and episodic acute conditions. Enabled by technology, connectivity and data, mass Mobility by its very nature implies that customisation is on the horizon allowing users are always part of a network, which radically increases the variety, velocity, volume and value of informa- In recognition of these accelerating tion they send and receive. factors, PwC commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to examine the Even before the advent of mobile connec- current state and potential of mHealth, tivity the distinct lines between traditional barriers to adoption, and opportunities health sectors were blurring and new for companies seeking growth in the business models were emerging. mHealth mHealth space. The result is the following is dropping into a ‘perfect storm’, enabling report based on surveys and interviews and accelerating three major global trends with key subject matter experts conducted already in play in healthcare. by the EIU. Regulatory reform driven by demographic In addition to the EIU’s analysis, PwC changes, such as ageing and chronic provided its own commentary on best illness, is redressing the balance between practices and strategic considerations for public and private sector participation in companies active in the mHealth arena healthcare. More and more, the public noted in the report as ‘PwC Perspectives’. sector, while seeking to optimise access We hope that these insights, coupled and quality, is looking towards the private summarised in the pages to come, are mHealth enables both sectors in this useful in helping the stakeholders in the regard, helping to improve access and industry understand, plan and participate quality while at the same time providing in this inevitable yet exciting new future. dramatic innovation and cost reduction opportunities. 1 Number of mobile phones end of 2011: 2 Lee Hood, “Vision for Systems Medicine: 5.98bn. International Telecommunication Predictive, Personalized, Preventive and Union (ITU). Key Global Telecom Indicators Participatory (P4)” http://sis.org/cases2007/ for the World Telecommunication Service SIS2007ConferenceHighlights-Hood/docs/ Sector, 2012. HoodLeroy.pdf
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  • 5. Table of contents Sidebar: About the research The current landscape Expectation versus reality Sidebar: Early adopters: driven or desperate? Greater need and fewer options Emerging solutions Sidebar: A tale of two countries—India and the UK Finding and proving a need From incremental to disruptive change Picking up the tab Sidebar: Does it work? Does that matter?
  • 6. 2 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth List of interviewees , , Business Solutions President, Brazilian Health Architect, Healthcare Unit, SAP Informatics Association , Head of Vodafone , Managing Director, mHealth Solutions, Vodafone Cell-Life , Policy Adviser, US Food , Head of Member and and Drug Administration (FDA) Consumer Engagement, Aetna , Chief Executive , Chief Operating , Regents’ Professor , Director of Health and Del E Webb Chair in Health Innovation, Intel Innovation, Arizona State University , Executive Director of Operations, Apollo Hospitals (India) , Head of Strategy, Siemens Healthcare India , Director of the mHealth Innovation Centre, University of , Head of Healthcare, SAP Manchester , Professor of Computer , Managing Director, Science, Cambridge University Acibadem Mobile , Head of China Healthcare, , Head of Orange Barclays Capital Healthcare, Orange , Executive Director, mHealth Alliance
  • 7. 3 Executive summary Mobile healthcare (mHealth) is “the their interests. The challenge will be - biggest technology breakthrough of our even greater for innovators because Patients in these time [being used] to address our greatest the improvements that mHealth can markets are much more likely to use national challenge”, said US Health and bring—such as patient-centred care mHealth applications or services than Human Services Secretary, Kathleen and a greater focus on prevention—will those in developed countries. Similarly, Sebelius in her keynote address at the involve disruption of how healthcare is more emerging-market doctors offer 2011 annual mHealth Summit in the provided. To succeed, innovators must mHealth services than colleagues in Washington, DC area. Worldwide, the manoeuvre through culturally conserva- developed countries, and more payers technology and its promise have moved tive, highly regulated and fragmented cover these costs. The ability of these up the healthcare agenda. yet often monopolistic systems that countries to leap ahead lies in the often provide contradictory incentives. paucity of existing healthcare: there is The interest is understandable. greater demand for change and, just as Increasingly ubiquitous and powerful important, there are fewer entrenched mobile technology holds the poten- interests to impede the adoption of new tial to address long-standing issues in Patients want more approaches. healthcare provision. However, such convenient provision of healthcare, but they also want greater control. For business models suggests that, yet again, doctors, mHealth can help provide better Widespread mHealth technology-driven hype may lead to patient care and ease their administrative adoption requires services and products expensive failures. headaches, but they are likely to resist the that appeal to current payers because loss of power implicit in greater patient patients, highly sensitive to price, will This Economist Intelligence Unit report, control. Payers already display interest in provide little income. Consumers’ sense commissioned by PwC, examines the mHealth, and the economic pressure for of entitlement with regard to health- current state and potential of mHealth more patient-centred, preventive care is care aggravates this price sensitivity. in developed and emerging markets, likely to drive them further towards the Accordingly, vendors must concentrate the ongoing barriers to its adoption and patient’s viewpoint. on solving payers’ problems. Technology the implications for companies in the this endeavour. Roughly one-half of patients surveyed In developing this report, commissioned by PwC, the Economist Intelligence Unit for this report predict that mHealth conducted two surveys in ten countries: Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, India, will improve the convenience, cost and quality of their healthcare in the next patients—with a broad distribution of economic backgrounds, ages, levels of educa- three years (see “About the research”). tion and states of health—about their opinions on various aspects of mHealth. The Meanwhile, six in ten doctors and payers second survey queried 433 doctors and 345 executives from payer organisations. believe that its widespread adoption in The respondents in the doctor group were drawn from the public sector (46%) and their countries is inevitable in the near the private sector (49%) or were independent physicians (5%). The group is more future. Yet most experts interviewed urban (67%) than suburban (24%) or rural (10%), with 45% practicing in primary for this study, while also convinced that care, 45% in secondary care and 10% in tertiary care. The executives from payer mHealth will eventually become an organisations responding to the survey are roughly evenly divided between the important part of care provision, expect public and the private sector, with 55% C-suite or above. that adoption will take time. In addition, the research included extensive desk research and 20 in-depth inter- views of senior executives from healthcare providers and payers, technology and - telecommunications companies and industry organisations, as well as leading New technology is experts from academia, think-tanks and non-governmental organisations. not enough. Widespread adoption of mHealth will require changes in behav- Finally, the EIU commissioned internal reports on mHealth for nine of the countries iour of actors who are trying to protect covered by the survey from its country experts.
  • 8. 4 Introduction: Not so fast?
  • 9. 5 Excitement surrounding mHealth is Chart 1: New mHealth Google hits in year palpable. A burgeoning calendar of events and exponential growth in web * 2012: 314,500 hits rising intensity of interest (see chart 1). The nature of the discussion is also 147,000 hits :2011 shifting. “About four years ago [mHealth conferences] were just a few people in 2010: 48,800 hits jeans meeting occasionally,” says Peter 27,500 hits :2009 Benjamin, Managing Director of Cell- 2008: 14,800 hits 5,340 hits :2007 Life, a South African non-governmental 2006: 2,750 hits organisation (NGO) developing mHealth technology. “Three years ago proper *Estimate for all of 2012 taken by multiplying pre-March 27 figure by 5 doctors started to show up; about two randomised controlled trials; and last year the suits got involved so that many mHealth conferences are now dominated by [corporate] executives Chart 2: Subscribers per 100 inhabitants (penetration) for 10 countries [discussing return on investment].” 1 billion China This growing interest rests on the assumption that two phenomena—the 800 million India ubiquity of wireless technology and the imperative need to transform healthcare Brazil 600 million provision—will inevitably intersect. The Turkey change will be profound. 400 million South Africa 200 million By late 2011 the world’s roughly seven billion people already had just shy of 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 six billion mobile-phone subscriptions, more than one-sixth with mobile broad- band, according to the International 300 million United States Telecommunication Union (see chart 250 million Germany 2). Connections are likely to outnumber people by 2013. Omnipresent in the United Kingdom 200 million developed world, this technology is increasingly widespread in developing 150 million Spain countries as well. Denmark 100 million Connectivity is just part of the story. Misha Chellam, Chief Operating 50 million 0 company, explains the value of ubiqui- 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 tous infrastructure for innovators: in Source: International Telecommunication Union, April 2012
  • 10. 6 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth building attachments for the phone, they In emerging markets, the situation The impact of mHealth on relationships “are riding on the back of an incredible is both worse and more hopeful. with patients will be about as big as that amount of investment; there is a billing Inadequate health infrastructure limits of the Internet, doctors say. model, connectivity and a user inter- much of the rural population and urban face people are trained on”. So much poor to, at best, only the most basic Pilot projects around the world point communication and computing power care. However, rapid economic growth to the plethora of possibilities. These in so many hands should drive provi- is driving citizens to demand more. range from the Patient Link programme sion of always-on, anywhere service in India’s government, for example, faces in Tianjin, China, which gives rural increasing pressure to raise health- patients access to medical profes- care spending. Jason Mann, Barclays sionals, to a host of programmes Meanwhile, the healthcare sector is ill- Capital’s Head of China healthcare, says across Africa that educate the public suited for modern needs. In developed that health is now a hot-button issue about AIDS through SMS messages, to countries, hospital-centric systems focus for that country’s government too. “Its SmokefreeTXT in the US, which helps largely on acute care even while chronic legitimacy is somewhat tied up with its young Americans to give up smoking. conditions dominate the disease load. ability to provide broad and inexpensive Population ageing will only exacerbate healthcare across China,” he explains. Most experts interviewed for this study, the challenge. Moreover, healthcare however, are much more cautious. services are frequently disjointed and “We all need to come back down to earth,” says Patricia Mechael, Executive ignore wider patient needs. Expectations are high that mobile tech- Director of the mHealth Alliance, a nology will help to increase access to multi-stakeholder group dedicated to Economic problems have raised aware- care in emerging markets and transform advancing mHealth. “My forecast is ness of the high cost of these inadequate the developed world’s costly healthcare that in the next year the hype cycle systems. Healthcare spending in the behemoths into less expensive, preven- will reach its peak, we will then move OECD has risen in the last decade from tion-based and patient-focused systems. into the trough of disillusionment, and an average of 7.8% of the region’s GDP to The surveys conducted for this research then move back up to a happier place.” 9.7%. Of this, typically about 70% comes programme found that although patients Steinar Pedersen, Chief Executive out of increasingly constrained govern- see relatively modest change so far, ment budgets. Jennifer Dixon, Director large numbers expect that mHealth will adds that currently “you have a research - environment that produces papers, a care think-tank, notes that although is delivered in the next three years (see business environment that produces areas such as telemedicine and eHealth chart 3). Roughly one-half predict that expectations, and a healthcare environ- are not new, the focus on such solutions it will improve the convenience (52%), ment that creates healthcare. So far they “has had a particular impetus in the last cost (46%) and quality (48%) of their have not met. This will happen, but how three years because of the economic healthcare (see chart 4). Similarly, 59% long it will take I’m not sure.” downturn. More people are looking at of doctors and payers believe that the change in a way that we haven’t seen in widespread adoption of mHealth in their Such words of caution suggest that the last 10 to 20 years.” countries is inevitable in the near future. change, while certainly desirable health-related information through the use of mobile devices (typically mobile phones, but also other specialised medical mobile devices, like wireless monitors). Mobile applications and services can include, among other things, remote patient monitors, video conferencing, online consultations, personal healthcare devices, wireless access to patient records and prescriptions. A broad variety of stakeholders take part in mHealth. They include patients and patient advocacy groups; healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, and other professionals who patients see as part of normal healthcare); institutions where care is provided (hospitals, clinics and others); payers (government and private); medical device companies; biopharma companies; technology companies (devices, appli- cations, software, infrastructure, data analytics and others); telecommunication services providers; pharmacies and other healthcare-related retail outlets; NGOs; regulators; policymakers; and a series of new entrants that include entrepreneurs and retailers.
  • 11. Introduction: Not so fast? 7 Chart 3: Patients expect mHealth to change their healthcare experience % of respondents who say that, in the next three years, mHealth will significantly change: 59% How I seek information on health issues 51% How providers or services send general healthcare information 49% How I manage my overall health 48% How I manage my chronic conditions 48% How my healthcare providers and I communicate 48% How I manage my medication 47% How I measure and share my vital health information 46% How healthcare providers monitor condition and compliance Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012 Chart 4: Patients say mHealth will improve convenience, quality and cost of healthcare In the next three years, patients agree that: 52% 48% 46% mHealth applications/ mHealth applications/ mHealth applications/ services will make services will improve services will substantially healthcare substantially the quality of healthcare reduce my overall health- more convenient for me I receive care costs (including linked costs like travel to and from the doctor or time off to go to clinics) Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012 79% and likely, is not simple. As with any To meet current and future challenges, If mHealth succeeds in delivering such important new technology, mHealth healthcare systems need disruptive things as a greater focus on prevention, can enable incremental innovation— change. For mHealth to enable that, better monitoring of chronic conditions improvements to existing practices, or though, it will have to deliver in the and patient-centred care, its impact will disruptive innovation—fundamental teeth of an industry with a long history be dramatic. But the scope of the task changes that alter healthcare provi- of effectively resisting disruption. and the resistance it engenders should sion. Professor Chris Taylor, Director Clayton Christensen, one of the leading not be underestimated. As Eric Dishman, of the University of Manchester’s scholars on innovation, once described Intel’s Director of Health Innovation, mHealth Innovation Centre, sees healthcare as perhaps “the most puts it: “mHealth is about fundamentally “some quick wins to be had, that will entrenched, change-averse industry changing the social contract between almost certainly come from the simpler, in the US”.3 Analyses of other countries patients and doctors. It will take time.” more boring things”. For example, the are similar. increasingly common practice of texting appointment reminders to patients substantially reduces costs from missed attendance. These innovations have 3 Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer and value, but they do not change the way John Kenagy, “Will disruptive innovations medicine is delivered. cure healthcare?” Harvard Business Review, September-October 2000.
  • 12. 8 Colliding interests, competing visions
  • 13. 9 mHealth can be a powerful instrument, which are highlighted by our surveys, potentially altering relationships within will shape the use of mHealth and the the healthcare industry. But Sangita speed of its adoption. Reddy, Executive Director of Operations at Apollo Hospitals in India, says that Patients mHealth’s “greatest uptake will be when believe that mHealth offers them easier it is just another methodology in the access to care and more control over healthcare cycle”. their own health (see charts 5 and 6). But this would involve a substantial, Mobile is thus a tool, not a new type of disruptive move away from doctor- medicine, and its meaning will emerge directed care towards a patient-as- from how it is applied within existing consumer model. Clinicians would healthcare systems. This will be deter- remain important, but not always the mined more by the interests of leading healthcare stakeholders than by the those who use mHealth services, 59% actual technology. That means that the say these have replaced some visits to tension among these interests, many of doctors or nurses. Chart 5: Patients define mHealth in terms of access and control How patients define mHealth 44% Use of mobile phone to learn about/monitor wellness (e.g., weight, diet, amount of exercise) 43% Contact between patient and healthcare provider by mobile phone or other device 42% Accessing health telephone call centres/advice lines/emergency services 29% Automated contact with my healthcare provider (e.g., reminders about appointments or to take medication) 25% Healthcare providers monitoring a specific patient condition (e.g., chronic disease) 18% Community health promotion or information initiatives sending messages to mobile phone 18% Medical professionals having remote access to electronic patient records 14% Support for medical professionals making decisions remotely 5% Collecting patient data for clinical trials Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 14. 10 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth “Consumers are mobilised under the exists, but it is not what conventional banner of convenience and, where they wisdom might predict. Among younger pay out of their own pockets, they begin to recognise cost,” says George Poste, experience—53% are worried about Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb the potential for patient independence. Chair in Health Innovation at Arizona Perhaps they are more aware of the State University. In this, patients simply depth of change technology has brought expect healthcare to catch up with other service industries. positions makes them more sensitive to how vulnerable they are to disruption. Nevertheless, it would involve disrup- Twenty-four percent of these younger tive change. Ozgur Turgay, Managing doctors actively discourage patients Director of Acibadem Mobile Health, one from using mHealth applications to of Turkey’s largest providers of mHealth manage their own health. services, calls it a revolution. “We are creating a new environment in health- Doctors are nevertheless embracing care,” he says. some aspects of mHealth. A 2012 survey of European doctors conducted While patients by Manhattan Research, an organisa- are pushing for change in healthcare, tion that researches medical personnel, our survey reveals doctors’ resistance to found that 26% owned iPads and spent disruption of their traditional roles. Only over one-quarter of their professional 27% encourage patients to use mHealth time using them. Its survey in the US applications in order to become more showed that in 2011 30% of surveyed active in managing their health; 13% doctors had an iPad, and 28% expected actively discourage this. to buy one in the next six months. Uptake in emerging markets has also Indeed, doctors are averse to a funda- been strong. Cláudio Giulliano Alves da mental change to the patient’s role Costa, President of the Brazilian Health (and power): 42% of doctors surveyed Informatics Association, notes that worry that mHealth will make patients physicians often resist adopting new too independent. A generational divide information technology but, surpris- ingly, they have accepted tablets. Chart 6: Patients will adopt mHealth if it improves access, lowers cost and increases control Top drivers for patients to consider beginning to use or increasing use of mHealth applications/services 46% Ability to access my healthcare providers more conveniently/effectively 43% Ability to reduce my own healthcare costs 32% Ability to take greater control over my own health 28% Ability to obtain information that is difficult or impossible for me to obtain from other sources 25% Ability to access better quality healthcare Source: Economi s t Intel l i gence Uni t, 2012
  • 15. Colliding interests, competing visions 11 With most disruptive technologies, the early adopters tend to be those who are ill-served by existing provision or not served at all. mHealth is no exception. The two types of patients in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s survey most attracted by its products and services are those with poorly managed chronic diseases and those who pay more than 30% of their household income towards healthcare. Both groups are better informed about mHealth, are much more likely to be using such applications and services already, and are noticeably more willing to pay for them (see chart 7). They are, however, also more likely to abandon these applications and data for mHealth is urgently needed—not just to improve return on investment but also to protect the potentially vulnerable from electronic quackery. Chart 7: Necessity is the mother of adoption in mHealth Patients with health issues are most likely to use mHealth products and services Familiarity with term “mHealth” 49% 62% 74% Engage in mHealth 64% 82% 79% Currently use one or 47% 72% 68% more apps Survey average Have poorly managed conditions Healthcare spending > 30% of income Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 16. 12 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth Doctors are buying into mobile tech- Chart 8: mHealth is about contact with patient, say doctors nology because it can help meet some of What doctors most associate with the term mob ile healthcare (mHealth) their needs, such as monitoring patient compliance, accessing records and 43% Contact between patient and healthcare provider by mobile phone or other device communicating with colleagues (see charts 8 and 9). One of the most popular 38% Monitoring of a patient’s condition or compliance with treatment regimen medical apps, for example, is Medscape, a free service which provides the latest 38% Medical professionals having remote access to electronic patient records medical news and information about diseases and drugs. While improvement 32% Support for medical professionals making decisions remotely of care is a bigger driver than simple convenience, doctors hope that it will 28% Automated contact between patient and healthcare provider happen through streamlining, rather than re-inventing, existing systems. 25% Use of mobile phone to learn about/monitor wellness 22% Accessing health telephone call centres/advice lines/emergency services 21% Community health promotion or information initiatives with messages to mobile phones 15% Collecting patient data for clinical trials Source: Economi s t Intel l i gence Uni t, 2012 Chart 9: Search for quality and efficiency are top incentives for doctors to adopt mHealth What would spur doctor adoption of mHealth 36% Improved quality of care/better health outcomes 32% Easier access to care for existing patients 32% Reduction in administrative time for medical personnel, allowing greater time for patients 29% More efficient internal processes/communication 28% Ability to reach previously unreachable patients 26% Patient expectations/demand 25% Lower overall cost of care for patients 17% Opportunity to provide new services/tap into new markets 16% Ubiquity of smartphones and applications in all areas of life 14% Encouragement by regulators 13% Expectation/demand of medical personnel or employees Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 17. Colliding interests, competing visions 13 Fighting chronic disease through mobile coaching PwC perspective Chronic conditions are the leading causes of death and disability globally, putting an enormous and increasing burden on most healthcare systems. Prevention and early intervention are a big step towards the ultimate aim of making populations healthier through better lifestyles and increased compliance with their suggested care regimens. and tools to modify behaviour in an engaging and sustainable way. WellDoc Inc., a healthcare behavioural science and technology company, has created a system of instant and longitudinal feedback and coaching driven by clinical, evidence-based guidelines and behaviour science. A 2009-2010 US trial of the WellDoc system sought to reduce blood glucose levels in 163 patients suffering from diabetes, with each participant receiving a glucose meter and supplies, along with a mobile phone application and access to a web-based portal. Patients can enter blood glucose levels and other self-care data into their phones—both ‘feature’ as well as ‘smart’— and receive real-time responses from ‘virtual patient coach’ (in the form of an expert mobile/web-client and cloud- based software system), providing assistance on managing the condition as well as more general tips on diet, exercise and other aspects of their lifestyle. The system can also produce ongoing, evidence-based reports of great use to the patients’ clinicians, helping them monitor their conditions more accurately. The results showed a mean decline in A1c (glycated haemoglobin—the gold-standard measure for diabetes control) seen, regardless of whether patients began the trial with a high or low A1c. By comparison, the US Food and Drug has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration, works on the vast majority of data-enabled mobile phones and can be integrated into the standard software and electronic health records used by doctors.4 With an estimated $218 billion spent annually on diabetes in the US,5 there is hope that this solution could enable annual cost savings per patient of as much as US$10,000 in reduced healthcare charges and increased worker produc- tivity. 6 7 8 In addition, this approach could allow patients to gain more control over their condition and make better decisions on a daily basis, which should enhance the lives of millions of patients who suffer from diabetes. Remote- based coaching of this kind also has considerable potential for other chronic diseases. Diabetes, obesity and hyperten- sion are seen as the three chronic diseases with the highest potential for mobile management through the application of phones and web-based solutions. 4 The impact of smartphone applications on the mobile health industry (vol. 2), Mobile health market, Report 2011-2016, research2guid- ance, 9 January 2012. 5 Figures for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) and the American Diabetes Association, 2009. 6 Milliman, 2011. 7 Medication adherence leads to lower health care use and costs despite increased drug spending, Roebuck MC, et al. Health Affairs (Mill- wood) (1):91-9, Jan 30 2011; Hospital Stays for Patients with Diabetes, Fraze T, et al. 2008; Statistical Brief #93. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Briefs [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (US); Aug 2006-2010. 8 Testa MA, et al. - litus. JAMA 280 (17):1490-6, Nov 1998.
  • 18. 14 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth Payers are likely to shift Payers—which in access to personalised information, to our survey include private insurance making customers—especially those even closer to the patient companies and government entities with high deductibles—aware of the which pay for healthcare services that actual costs of their treatment choices. position because they they or others provide—currently will bear most of the occupy a middle ground. They are not Payers are likely to shift even closer to so much interested in pure cost reduc- the patient position because they will economic consequences tion as value for money. This includes bear most of the economic consequences a reduction in administrative burdens if healthcare systems fail to reform. if healthcare systems fail for patients, as well as promoting better Disruption is in their interest, and many to reform health through greater patient involve- ment in care (see charts 10 and 11). healthcare. This includes a greater The ultimate aim of improved value emphasis on wellness and prevention— for money may differ between private areas where mHealth can help greatly. payers, who desire to reduce their spending, and public ones, who may Many have launched their own mHealth services. Others have bought the best treatment possible within that popular ones. Aetna, for example, has acquired iTriage, an application however, can appeal to both. allows customers to research medical symptoms, locate nearby healthcare payers are numerous. Dan Brostek, Head providers and schedule appointments. of Member and Consumer Engagement Mr Brostek points out that consumers at Aetna, a health insurer, notes that increasingly expect mHealth solutions. these range from the administra- By providing patients with the mobile tive savings from making commonly capabilities they want, insurers can requested information easy to down- differentiate themselves in a competi- load, to improving outcomes through tive marketplace.
  • 19. Colliding interests, competing visions 15 Chart 10: Patient at centre of mHealth, according to payers What payers most associate with the term mobile healthcare (mHealth) 35% Contact between patient and healthcare provider by mobile phone or other device 31% Use of mobile phone to learn about/monitor wellness 30% Medical professionals having remote access to electronic patient records 28% Monitoring of a patient’s condition or compliance with treatment regimen 27% Automated contact between patient and healthcare provider 26% Support for medical professionals making decisions remotely 25% Community health promotion or information initiatives with messages to mobile phones 24% Accessing health telephone call centres/advice lines/emergency services 19% Collecting patient data for clinical trials Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012 Chart 11: Search for quality and efficiency are top incentives for payers to adopt mHealth What would spur payer adoption of mHealth 30% Reduction in administrative time for medical personnel, allowing greater time for patients 29% Improved quality of care/better health outcomes 28% Lower overall cost of care for patients 26% Ability to reach previously unreachable patients 24% Easier access to care for existing patients 23% Patient expectations/demand 22% Opportunity to provide new services/tap into new markets 21% More efficient internal processes/communication 19% Expectation/demand of medical personnel or employees 16% Ubiquity of smartphones and applications in all areas of life 16% Encouragement by regulators Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 20. 16 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth The difference between doctors and patients, says Mr Pedersen, “is the Mr Chellam adds that such technology “changes the balance of power. It is not surprising that doctors would be concerned.” Payers, on the other hand, are using mHealth: 40% encourage patients to let doctors monitor them through such services, compared with just 25% of doctors. Moreover, although physicians frequently cite existing payment struc- tures as a barrier to their greater deploy- ment of mHealth, in most cases payers are much more likely to cover mHealth- related services than doctors are to provide them (see charts 12 and 13). Doctor resistance is likely to hold back some aspects of mHealth. This opposi- tion is all the more problematic because mHealth will also have to overcome myriad barriers that typically delay change, especially disruptive innovation in healthcare. Still, most interviewees point to the appearance of the Internet and believe that doctors will be unable to resist—especially as payers join patients in demanding change. Doctor resistance is likely to hold back some aspects of mHealth...still, most interviewees believe that doctors will be unable to resist—especially as payers join patients in demanding change
  • 21. Colliding interests, competing visions 17 Chart 12: Doctors see promise in offering mHealth services % of doctors who have begun to offer the following types of services via mobile devices, and which they would like to offer Have Would Have no Offer but Total* begun like to plans to intend to to offer offer offer stop Telephone-based consultations 38% 32% 28% 2% 100% Administrative communication 38% 45% 16% 1% 100% Receiving data to monitor patient 21% 51% 26% 1% 100% Provide patients access to portions of their medical record 17% 38% 44% 2% 100% Drug adherence and other health-related communication 17% 51% 31% 1% 100% Use of mobile device to explain/demonstrate during office visits 17% 46% 37% 1% 100% Text-based consultations 16% 31% 52% 1% 100% Analysis of general health and wellness data gathered by mobile devices 13% 48% 37% 1% 100% Video consultations 8% 44% 47% 1% 100% *Numbers may differ due to rounding Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012 Chart 13: Payers support diverse mHealth services, and plan to support even more % of payers who say their organisation has begun to pay for the following types of services provided via mobile devices, and which it intends to pay for in the next three years Have Plan to Have no Pay for, Total* begun to pay for plans to but pay for in next pay for intend to 3 years stop Telephone-based consultations 37% 31% 29% 4% 100% Administrative communication 36% 33% 28% 3% 100% Access by patients to portions of his or her medical record 32% 38% 27% 3% 100% Drug adherence and other health-related communication 31% 37% 28% 4% 100% Text-based consultations 30% 34% 31% 4% 100% Analysis of general health and wellness data gathered by the patient’s mobile devices 30% 36% 30% 4% 100% Medical professionals receiving data as part of patient monitoring 29% 41% 27% 4% 100% Video consultations 22% 38% 37% 3% 100% *Numbers may differ due to rounding Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 22. 18 Healthcare innovation: A school of patience
  • 23. 19 Innovation in healthcare—particularly doctors and payers list privacy and disruptive reorganisations of processes, security concerns as leading barriers to care pathways and even job responsi- greater use of mHealth, and only around half of doctors believe that the mobile Although mHealth has a broad range of Internet facilities at their workplace are reasonably secure. set of powerful barriers also exists. These are both diverse—ranging from Poor integration also impedes uptake. technology to culture, from incentive Just 53% of doctors say that the mHealth structures to regulations—and mutu- applications and services they use work ally reinforcing. with their organisation’s information technology (IT), and even fewer say they Technology still presents are integrated with technology in other challenges for mHealth adopters. Both parts of the health system (see chart 14). Chart 14: Poor integration of IT systems impedes uptake of mHealth % of respondents who say mHealth applications and services they use at their organisation are well integrated with the following 53% IT systems of my organisation (e.g., the medical practice where I work) 37% IT systems of local hospitals and clinics 27% IT system of the national healthcare system in my country 23% IT systems accessible by colleagues in other organisations (e.g., academia, other medical practices) 15% Health data systems that patients can access directly Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 24. 20 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth “It is very easy from Lack of interoperability between tech- Technological issues fade next nologies is often to blame. Claudius to the complexities of bringing about the technology point of Metze, Business Solutions Architect in change in healthcare, however. “It is the Healthcare Unit at SAP, Germany- very easy from the technology point of view to say that this is based enterprise software company, view to say that this is the future, but the future but [those notes that almost every healthcare [those saying so] don’t take into account customer has “many disparate systems the traditions and the complexity of the saying so] don’t take into that are hard to integrate, and where healthcare system,” says Mr Pedersen. only the vendor knows the secret of how Electronic health records, for example, account the traditions to get data out”. have been on the cusp of revolutionising and the complexity of the care since 1985, but in most countries Nor will technological issues ever they have been unable to break through healthcare system.” completely disappear. Mr Brostek these broader barriers to change. explains that one of the biggest chal- lenges in mHealth is the rapid change In fact, 27% of doctors and 26% of payers in consumer technology and adoption cite an inherently conservative culture behaviours: “When a new operating as a leading barrier to mHealth. Thierry system comes out, people almost expect Zylberberg, Head of France Telecom’s within a month that its new capabilities Orange Healthcare, notes that this is not will be layered into your applications. It is complex to move at that speed.” by consensus precisely because if innova- tion does not work out as planned, the risks to human health can be substantial
  • 25. Healthcare innovation: A school of patience 21 Chart 15: A technology gap exists between private and public sectors Doctors with access to wireless Doctors without access to Doctors who think lack Internet at work mobile Internet at work of necessary technology is a leading barrier to greater adoption of mHealth applications/ 63% services at work 40% 33% 40% 14% 27% Private sector Public sector Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012 But no matter how understandable the State control is particularly relevant for roots of such a cautious approach, it can mHealth. Ongoing government retrench- ment has created a technological gap change, even one that does not carry that will slow adoption. Lack of existing much risk. technology is the biggest barrier to greater use of mHealth, according to the Most national public-sector doctors and payers surveyed health systems are both vast and (see chart 15). One-third of public-sector fragmented. The UK’s National Health doctors do not even have mobile Internet System (NHS), for example, is the at work, compared with 14% in the seventh-largest employer worldwide private sector. Obtaining the economic and Europe’s biggest, but decision- making powers are diffuse. Ian Leslie, governments to invest more to catch up Professor of Computer Science at technologically. Cambridge University and an expert in mHealth in China, notes that one The highly regulated nature strategy for mHealth entrepreneurs is, of healthcare also hinders innovation. as much as possible, to “avoid inter- For rapidly changing technologies, the acting with the humongous thing” that problem is frequently either a regula- is the health system. tory void—which increases risk for providers—or the application of inappro- priate regulations from earlier technolo- change in one country is not necessarily gies: 45% of payers and doctors believe helpful elsewhere, because systems that the latter is holding up mHealth. vary markedly. They frequently include dominant monopolies, substantial state Bakul Patel, a policy adviser at the US control and high costs for and regula- Food and Drug Administration (FDA), tory barriers to new entrants, all of notes that his organisation wants to which are inimical to entrepreneur- support mHealth and is developing driven innovation. new ways to deal with the attendant
  • 26. 22 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth regulatory challenges. For example, to allow faster innovation, the FDA has a broad variety of stakeholders— broken new ground by issuing a descrip- tion of low-risk mHealth areas, such as pharmacies, purchasers and mobile- patient self-management, that would phone companies that carry the data not be regulated, even if they meet the - not found a commercially viable model. edges that regulators continue to face a Pharmaceutical companies provide some pressing challenge in seeking to balance sponsorship, but the programme also relies on prize money, grants and dona- tions of low-cost or pro bono services more work in terms of how regulators from a variety of companies. can add value to this ecosystem. As part of that effort we are developing a new More daunting still is the ability of framework for the small subset of high- risk mHealth devices that will be able to accommodate the rapid innovation solutions you need to understand what cycles of these technologies.” is in it for the person who pays your bill and, even more important, you need to Perhaps the understand whose toes you are stepping on, and how to turn it into a situation healthcare is the complex incentive where everybody wins,” says Axel arrangements that have created and Nemetz, Head of Vodafone mHealth continue to reinforce current systems. Solutions. He recalls one project that An mHealth product will only be clearly provided superior care for the adopted if a stakeholder sees an advan- patient at home and had the support of medical personnel. Hospital adminis- purchaser is not always straightforward. initially sought to block the scheme One of the best-known mHealth because they would lose income from services, run by Ghana-based NGO the resultant reduction in hospital-based services. In the end, compensation work- arounds were developed in the interests mHealth innovation. The service allows of patients and other stakeholders. consumers purchasing drugs in certain This is not an isolated incident, but parts of Africa to text a coded number rather traditional behaviour inside the on the packaging to the service, which health sector, where actors use diverse will either verify that the product is economic, regulatory and organisational legitimate or warn that it is counterfeit. levers to protect themselves.
  • 27. PwC perspective Healthcare innovation: A school of patience 23 It’s hard to overestimate the cost of counterfeiting. One expert believes that the global market for fakes could be worth between US$75-$200 billion—a year 9 in lost revenue for pharmaceutical companies. The practice could even jeop- ardise national and international investment in research manufacturing facilities, marketing and distribution. However the biggest cost is arguably to society as a whole in the form of additional treatment and especially in lost lives of those who could otherwise have made a productive contribution to a nation’s wealth over a lifetime. The 200,000 deaths a year attributed to malaria alone could potentially cost billions to the countries affected. The WHO estimates that malaria can decrease annual gross domestic product (GDP) by as much as 1.3% in countries with high levels of transmission, while in some countries the disease accounts for up to 40% of public health expenditures, 30-50% of inpatient hospital admissions and up to 60% of outpatient health clinic visits.10 Given these staggering sums, it’s no surprise that there are concerted efforts to help health systems and the pharma- ceutical industry secure the global supply chain for drugs. The WHO has been working with government agencies and manufacturers around the world to create a database of products, giving each packet of medicine a unique number. And a new initiative from mobile phone company Orange (part of France Telecom), these markings can now be tracked at any point in the distribution pipeline using widely available and relatively inexpensive technology. The system is a collaboration between Orange and a non-governmental organisation called m-Pedigree and is simple for users and/or clinicians. Each pack has a batch number and expiry date, along with a one-time code that is only revealed by scratching the covering ink. The code number is sent by SMS to a server, which sends an instant response verifying whether the drug is real or fake. The code on the packages is a one-off encrypted number that incorporates the batch code and expiry date, so the system is relatively foolproof. The costs are minimal and initial trials in Kenya have been very successful, with thousands of messages sent to the server, suggesting that such an approach has a huge potential for wider application in both emerging and mature organisations, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies. While the many initiatives underway have experienced various levels of success, the results are positive for mHealth overall. 9 “Poison pills: Counterfeit drugs used to be a problem for poor countries. Now they threaten the rich world, too,” The Economist, 2 September 2010. 10 WHO estimates http://www.who.int/mediacentre
  • 28. 24 Emerging markets, emerging solutions
  • 29. 25 Chart 16: Patients are more aware of mHealth in emerging markets of innovation in healthcare are % of patients who are familiar with the terms “mobile health” or “mHealth” neither insurmountable nor universal. Disruptive innovation typically occurs Yes No on the fringes of a sector, where consumers have fewer resources and 61% 63% entrenched interests are weaker or non- existent. mHealth is no exception. Mobile healthcare solutions are being deployed more rapidly in emerging markets than in developed economies. “We see it on the ground in countries we work with. While the US thinks 37% 39% about dealing with fundamental issues like secure electronic health records, Developed markets Emerging markets in places like India, China and Singapore mHealth is taking place,” says Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012 Mr Dishman. In the emerging markets surveyed, Chart 17: Emerging market patients have great expectations of mHealth patient awareness and expectations of mHealth are, on average, far higher % of respondents who say that in the next three years, mHealth will change: than in developed countries (see charts How I seek information on health issues 16, 17, 18). More important, far more 53% 64% patients are already using mHealth: 59% of emerging-market patients use at How healthcare providers or services send me general healthcare information 49% 54% least one mHealth application or service, compared with 35% in the developed How I manage my overall health (e.g., track my world, and among those who do not, 42% 57% weight and exercise) emerging-market residents are more interested in starting (see chart 19). How I measure and share my vital health information (e.g., heart rate, blood glucose) 43% 52% How I manage my medication 41% 55% How I manage any chronic conditions that I have 42% 54% How my healthcare providers and I communicate about my overall health or chronic condition 42% 54% How my healthcare providers monitor my condition and my compliance with directions 40% 53% Developed markets Emerging markets Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 30. 26 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth Chart 18: Patients in emerging markets are more optimistic of mHealth to their overall care % of patients who agree with the following statements: I expect that mHealth I expect that mHealth I expect that mHealth applications/services will applications/services will applications/services will substantially reduce my overall make healthcare substan- improve the quality of healthcare costs in the next tially more convenient for healthcare I receive in the three years. me in the next three years. next three years. 53% 57% 54% 40% 48% 42% Developed markets Emerging markets Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012 Chart 19: Interest is high among emerging market patients who do not yet use mHealth % of patients who would be interested in using the following types of mHealth applications/services Applications/services that help me manage my own well being (e.g., track weight or calorie 37% 57% intake) through entering data manually Applications/services that help me manage my own well being (e.g., track weight or calorie 28% 46% intake) and get their data automatically Applications/services that help me communicate better with healthcare professionals 54% 61% Applications/services that integrate with medical devices to send data on my condition to 28% 51% healthcare professionals Applications/services that gather general information on healthcare, including drugs 44% 57% Developed markets Emerging markets Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 31. Emerging markets, emerging solutions 27 Reaching out through mHealth and making healthcare available to masses PwC perspective - Apollo Hospitals Group in India is aware that its private hospitals can only serve a small proportion of India’s huge 1.2 billion population. However, with 900 million owning a mobile phone11, the opportunity for de-monopolising health- lifecycle state of providing basic education and awareness along with primary care would make quality healthcare reach millions who currently have no access to physicians. - medics, physiotherapists, nurses, doctors and health advisers, using an IT platform with a structured query database to give an appropriate health response. This service is offered in collaboration with leading telecommunications companies, and has the following track record: Over 700,000 calls handled by the triage service since it launched. Country-wide coverage, reaching a potential audience of 70 million, 24 hours a day and 7 days per week. 2G-based and provisioning for 3G-based video consultations. As a next step, Apollo is trialling remote analytics through a range of devices monitoring symptoms such as blood health system’ that also includes lifestyle, diet and educational support. For example, with their diabetes management program called SUGAR, diabetics may upload their blood sugar count to the clinician through SMS and mobile applications, with an SMS text delivered back to the patient explaining the readings and advising whether further action is required. Further support comes from the contact centre staffed by medical professionals, and customers also have access to customised personal health records. Early signs are encour- aging, with the diabetes monitoring in particular raising compliance to an appropriate diet and exercise regime, with plans for further expansion. Over time the network will become more integrated to link health providers, payers and mobile phone suppliers with new phone customers asked to enter health records at point of purchase as a standard procedure, and a button on the phone to access the telehealth provider at a single touch. And by partnering with health insurance companies, Apollo hopes to make mHealth an integral part of the cure process and not an alternate method of care. 11 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, 2011
  • 32. 28 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth Payers and doctors in emerging markets Finally, while ‘pilotitis’ remains an so few doctors overall, and is especially are also more active in mHealth. More ongoing problem in developed countries, relevant in India, China and South payers currently cover the costs of, or the scale of mHealth projects is starting Africa, where so much of the population plan to pay for, every mHealth-related to grow in emerging markets. Brazil’s lives in the countryside. In such rural service in the survey than do their areas, medical care is often provided, if counterparts in wealthier countries (see allows ambulances across the country at all, by those with only the most basic chart 20). Doctors in these markets, to send cardiograms to the telemedicine of training. meanwhile, are more likely to have unit of a specialist heart hospital in São some form of mobile Internet at work In emerging markets care is also often and to have their own applications inte- diagnosis to guide emergency treatment. expensive: 53% of patients there grated with local and national health- In Turkey, Acibadem Mobile runs an cite cost as a driver of greater use of care data systems. mHealth nutrition service with 450,000 mHealth, compared with 34% in devel- members, and in less than two years an oped countries. In many cases mobile mHealth already has brought about emergency healthcare service offered technology is the only viable tool to substantial change in the doctor-patient in conjunction with Turkish Telecom reach people. As Dr Benjamin points relationship for 27% of emerging-market has grown to 100,000 members. In out: “The cell phone in Europe is a nice doctors (compared with 16% in devel- Mexico, meanwhile, Medicall Home has gadget, but a substitution for other tech- oped countries) and a marked internal nology. For a majority of Africa it is not restructuring of their workplace for a month on their phone bills in order to a substitution for anything, but [rather] 34% (compared with 19%). Collectively, access medical advice. Finally, South the only access.” doctors and payers in emerging markets Africa is preparing to launch a national are also much more likely to recommend mHealth-enabled programme to This is also true in much of Asia. patients use mHealth either on their increase HIV/AIDS screening. Such proj- Bangladesh’s Grameenphone, in own or to let medical personnel monitor ects suggest that mHealth is maturing co-operation with the Telephone their conditions (68% to 59%). In China beyond basic experimentation. Reference Centre, set up Healthlink to allow its customers (and others using to eight out of ten. village phone centres) to talk with a doctor any time of day or night. It is not The scope of mHealth is also broader Overwhelming necessity helps explain surprising that, in a country with less in emerging markets. Mobile tech- the more rapid adoption of mHealth in than one doctor per 4,000 people, the nology has proved particularly effec- emerging markets. “In mature markets, tive in public health activities, such [healthcare involves] a luxury problem: the last six years. as outbreak-tracking in remote areas. - The data-gathering programme in ment in the hospital, in the physician’s The lack of healthcare infrastructure Brazil’s Amazonas State, for example, means that emerging markets do not face provided nearly real-time information the challenge is completely different,” the challenge of entrenched interests on outbreaks of dengue fever that previ- says Mr Nemetz. that can impede mHealth in developed ously took one to two months to collate. countries. Barriers to change remain, of The number of doctors per head in the course: China’s hospital system is notori- Ms Mechael expects mHealth in many surveyed countries gives some indica- - emerging countries to support front- tion of the disparity (see chart 21), but cult. Overall, though, Mr Leslie notes: line health workers before it addresses the distribution of medical personnel “In the developed world, the problem is makes it even starker. Doctors world- this enormous medical infrastructure this: 29% of public-sector health execu- wide tend to concentrate in urban that is very conservative and resistant to tives in emerging markets associate the areas. This has a particular impact in change. In emerging markets, you have term mHealth with community health developing countries where there are a lot of the drivers of innovation without promotion or education, the third most the barriers.” common choice for that group.
  • 33. Emerging markets, emerging solutions 29 Chart 20: More mHealth services are covered by payers in emerging markets than in developed countries Overwhelming necessity helps explain the more % of respondents who say their organisation has started to pay for the following types of services provided via mobile devices rapid adoption in Telephone-based consultations Difference* emerging markets 29% 14% 43% Access by patients to portions of his/her medical record 25% 14% 39% Administrative communication (e.g., appointment reminders) 34% 5% 38% Text-based consultations 23% 14% 37% Drug adherence and other health-related communication 24% 12% 37% Analysis of general health and wellness data gathered by the patient’s mobile devices 23% 12% 35% Medical professionals receiving data as part of patient monitoring 23% 10% 33% Video consultations 21% 3% 24% Developed markets Emerging markets *Numbers may differ due to rounding Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012
  • 34. 30 Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth Chart 21: mHealth adoption may reflect relative need Doctors per 1,000 population in 2012 Spain Germany Unied States Denmark United Kingdom Turkey Brazil South Africa China India 0.59 0.60 1.10 1.30 1.71 2.15 3.31 3.49 3.80 4.68 Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012 Ms Reddy, who oversaw the growth of warns patients and their caregivers Apollo’s mHealth business, adds: “When when the former fail to take prescribed you have no legacy, it is easy to build.” drugs, is very similar in concept to She notes that “in emerging markets, SIMpill, a South African product that higher penetration of mobility is coupled appeared several years before. Similarly with increasing acceptance of the tool Text4Baby—a free, multi-stakeholder as a medium to interact and exchange service sending relevant information information. Healthcare services need to to pregnant mothers—is one of the ride this wave to ensure quality health- few mHealth programmes to reach care is available to masses irrespective substantial scale in the US. Its design of the patient location.” drew on Mexico’s VidaNet service (for patients with HIV/AIDS) and Kenya’s Finally, these emerging markets are MobileforGood Health Tips. Technology - transfer from emerging countries is nological infrastructure to engage in likely to continue. mHealth, and have populations with expectations of improved care. Looking More important, the development of at all the factors in emerging markets mHealth in emerging-market coun- together, Mr Leslie concludes: “In some tries can accelerate the development of ways, you can’t think of better condi- - tions. Why waste time in the West?” nology companies, telecoms operators, payers and others—that analysts agree are essential for mHealth’s long-term success. Given mHealth’s digital nature, Emerging markets are likely to be the an ecosystem will not be restricted by seedbed of innovation—an advantage national boundaries. This will eventu- they can leverage in the global market. ally allow participants to support disrup- Two of the best-known American tion in a host of markets. The future of mHealth services follow emerging- Western healthcare may be developing market examples. GlowCaps, a tool that in emerging markets today.