analysis of the innovation outputs in mhealth for patient monitoring
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Analysis of the
Innovation Outputs
in mHealth
for Patient Monitoring
C. Villalonga, H. Pomares, O. Baños
SUT4Coaching – IUCC16
15/12/2016
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Introduction
mHealth …
“medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices,
personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices”
World Health Organization (2011). mHealth: new horizons for health through mobile technologies: second global survey on eHealth
“… also includes applications such as lifestyle and
wellbeing apps that may connect to medical devices or sensors (e.g. bracelets or watches) as well as personal guidance systems, health information and medication reminders provided by sms and telemedicine provided
wirelessly”
European Commission (2014) . Green Paper on mobile Health
Potential to boost the
healthcare sector,
making it more efficient
and more sustainable,
and increasing the healthcare quality.
“Analysis of the trends of
innovation in the domain of
mHealth for patient monitoring”
Measuring Innovation
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Innovation indicators:
Innovation input - Resources devoted to R&D
Innovation output - Intellectual property statistics
- Scientific publications statistics
Innovation impact
- Turnover
- Employment
OECD and Eurostat (2005). Oslo Manual
OECD (2015). Frascati Manual
OECD (2015). OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2015
Studies:
Patents in mHealth
Scientific publications in
mHealth
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Scope: European market
2006-2015 (10 years)
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Patents in mHealth
Scope: European market
2006-2015 (10 years)
Data collection from EPO’s database
150 patents about mobile
patient monitoring
Data processing (manual classification)
54 patents about mHealth for patient monitoring
Data analysis
Patents in mHealth
Patents in mHealth
Trends
- 6 inventions monitored glucose level
- 5 inventions monitored ECG or heart rate
- 12 inventions proposed a method for signaling
alerts when the monitored data reached certain
conditions
Geographical
location
Evolution
Type
Scientific publications
in mHealth
Scope: European market
2006-2015 (10 years)
Data collection from Scopus’ database
Scientific publications in mHealth
Data processing (manual classification)
Data analysis
366 journal articles and book
chapters about mHealth
114 journal articles and book
chapters about mHealth for patient monitoring
Trends
- 17 publications monitoring ECG or heart rate
- 12 publications monitoring the glucose level
- 11 publications sensing movement to detect
activities or falls
Scientific publications in mHealth
Evolution
Type
Scientific publications in mHealth
International collaborations
… in 40 (out of 114) publications
… 25 with non-EU countries
… 15 with other EU countries
Geographical location (institution of the first author)
Remarks
Scientific production of EU institutions is considerable but
European inventions are mostly not protected.
Conclusions
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Trends & performance of innovation
in mHealth for patient monitoring
Proxy indicators of
innovation outputs
Patent
statistics
Scientific
publications
statistics
measured via
Great interest in mHealth and
huge involvement in innovation
activities in mHealth for patient
monitoring
• High scientific production
• Low protection of inventions
• Strong collaboration between
EU and North America and
Asia
Questions
Oresti Banos
Telemedicine Cluster, Biomedical Signal and Systems Group
Center for Telematics and Information Technology
University of Twente