This document discusses mHealth solutions and the opportunities they present. It outlines several key points: 1) mHealth covers a range of mobile services for healthcare including data collection, teleassessment, remote monitoring, education and awareness, and personal emergency systems. 2) The mHealth ecosystem involves four layers - patients, device manufacturers, telecom companies, and software/healthcare industries. Telecom companies play an important role in providing access, security, hosting, and billing. 3) Orange provides several mHealth services including remote monitoring and data collection solutions in Mali and Egypt/Botswana, and teledermatology and health awareness SMS campaigns in Cameroon. mHealth has the potential

1. mHealth Solutions:
From Dreams to Reality
by Orange Healthcare
Elinaz MAHDAVY
Nov 8th , 2011, Brussels – Global Forum.

2. mHealth remains a fuzzy concept,
covering many different kind of services.
Data
collection
Mobile devices
for care givers Education &
Awareness
Tele
assessment
Personal
emergency
system
Remote Wellness &
monitoring prevention
Mobile access
to HIS & clinical
Tracking
systems
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3. A first breakdown based on usage
Services for Health Health Prevention and
Professional management wellness
Data
collection
Mobile devices
for care givers Education &
Awareness
Tele
assessment
Personal
emergency
system
Remote Wellness &
monitoring prevention
Mobile access
to HIS & clinical
Tracking
systems
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4. one market, many players:
mHealth ecosystem consists of 4 layers
It is a classic value chain for Telcos
The key players. An emerging layer – lot
Today on a classical of value, few pure
devices business model players
Patie Devices Telco Software Healthcare
nts manufactu s industry ecosystem
rers
Hosting, Security
Security,
transport, billing,
secured third party
… cloud computing
Healthcare ecosystem is
pushing for cost
effectiveness & security
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5. 3- some examples of Orange services
In health management, devices are key but telcos
provides access and security.
Orange has already been working with devices
manufacturers like Sorin on chronic disease
1 - Measure
It starts with a device, but
it’s all about remote access 2 – Intermediation
to data & intermediation
with high security
standards
3 – Analyze
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6. 3- some examples of Orange services
In AMEA Orange is working with NGOs and foundations to
enable data collection and remote monitoring. Examples
Mali, for people living far In Egypt & Bostwana,
from hospitals and Orange launch tele
physicians dermatology
Data collection on mobile Picture using the mobile
phone
Tele diagnostic
Tele diagnostic
The NGO operating the
system take care of the
treatment
Orange keep
Cameroon: Orange and Text- working with
2-Change empower its mHealth
healthcare prevention &
awarness partners
First wave of
164 000 SMS to join up healthcare,
in the coming weeks
and to invent new ways to
Reproductive health do business
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7. mHealth is about efficiency but also about access to health
In any case, it’s mainly about health management
More than 50%
of mHealth revenues
Services for Health Health Prevention &
Professional management wellness
B2B B2C
Tele assessment Personal emergency
system
Mobile devices for care
givers
Remote monitoring Wellness &
prevention
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8. Thank you