Personal Health Systems (PHS) and Remote Patient Monitoring and Treatment (RMT) have the potential to alter the way healthcare is provided by increasing the quantity and quality of care. This report explores the current status of PHS and, more specifically of the RMT market in Europe. It addresses the question of how these technologies can contribute facing some of the challenges standing in front of the European healthcare delivery systems causes by higher demand pressures through chronic diseases and demographic change combined with diminishing resources for health care. An uptake and diffusion of these services would potentially lead to benefits through a reduction in death rates, and avoid recurring hospitalisation in a cost-effective manner. Yet the report identifies different categories of barriers hampering a full deployment of RMT in Europe. In the concluding part the reports provides a number of tentative policy options specifically aimed at fostering EU-wide deployment of RMT/PHS.
ABADIE Fabienne;
CODAGNONE Cristiano;
VAN LIESHOUT Marc;
PASCU Corina;
BAUM Peter;
HOIKKANEN Anssi;
VALVERDE Jose A.;
MAGHIROS Ioannis;
2011-07-07
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC62159
978-92-79-18947-0,
1018-5593,
EUR 24669 EN,
OP LF-NA-24669-EN-C,
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=3899,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC62159,
10.2791/51778,
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