New White Paper on Telemedicine Available

First Consulting Group has recently released a new white paper, which we excerpted in our last Telemedicine News Update. The paper, entitled Telemedicine in the Ambulatory Setting: Trends, Opportunites and Challenges, reviews the opportunities for providers in the two main areas of telemedicine: remote consulting and home monitoring and discusses some of the considerations in getting started. You can read the excerpt on the TIE here, or download the complete pdf of the paper from First Consulting Group here.

Question: What is the Market for Telehealth? (Update)

In our last post, we pointed out some of the TIE's resources for finding the market on telehealth and briefly talked about some of the difficulty in coming up with a specific number for the overall market value for telemedicine.

Well, a new article caught our eye this week that states that states that "the telemedicine market is expected to grow to $1.83 billion by 2010, according to a Parks Associates’ research analyst". The complete article can be read here.