Digital health: a major opportunity for telecoms
If healthcare is a part of your growth strategy, our digital health insights and support can help.
Why you should focus on digital health
The healthcare industry is changing on a global scale, bringing new challenges centred on a lack of available resources. Digital health technology enables better, more proactive, and more bespoke patient management at lower cost, and will therefore play a key role in driving necessary efficiency gains within the industry.
However, healthcare is still one of the least digitised sectors worldwide – this provides operators with a real and lasting opportunity to add value beyond core connectivity.
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Overview
The digital health opportunity for telcos
An overview of the opportunity in digital health for the telecoms industry and how telcos should address the healthcare market.
Virtual event
ETIS Annual Gathering
On Thursday, October 15th ETIS is hosting its annual event, looking at how telcos can help support digital transformation in industry verticals. Join Amy Cameron’s session on the role for telcos in digital health.
Article
How COVID-19 is changing digital health – and what it means for telcos
Adoption of telehealth has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, as healthcare systems shifted to telephone and virtual care almost overnight in order to lower the virus transmission rate. Which changes will last for the long term and how can telcos play a role?
Webinar
Telco health strategies: TELUS and Babylon’s telehealth partnership
In the context of COVID-19, telehealth is clearly a key opportunity in healthcare. To understand what it takes for telcos to succeed in this market, listen to our webinar with David Thomas, Managing Principal of Global Health Strategy at TELUS, and Mairi Johnson, Head of Corporate Development at Babylon Health.
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5 ways blockchain can drive digital health development
Blockchain is a powerful technology for enabling secure data sharing and access between multiple parties. This is a major challenge in digital health, where the privacy and security of medical data is paramount. Read more to see how blockchain can support transformation in healthcare.
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10 5G Healthcare use cases transforming digital health
In this article we outline 10 5G healthcare use cases which, as healthcare providers look to the future of their digital strategies, will support the long-term transformation of the industry and the move to digital health
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Four strategies for telcos in healthcare
The combination of improving health IT systems, more demanding patients, the growing maturity of analytics and AI, and rising cost pressures on healthcare systems together are creating a tipping point for growth in digital health. Which part of the digital health market should telcos play in, and how?
Article
Digital health in South Korea: five examples of digital health beyond telemedicine
With relatively widespread 5G coverage, and high demand for 5G services, South Korea is seeing growing investment in digital health from its leading telecoms operators and their partners. In these examples of digital health, we explore how SKT and KT Corp leverage their connectivity, products and applications to serve the Korean healthcare market.
Research
Coordinating the care of the elderly
Telcos are well placed to enable the healthcare sector to meet the rising demand for secure and reliable in-home monitoring and treatment for the elderly and infirm.
Article
Digital health at the edge: Three use cases for the healthcare industry
The healthcare industry must transform to meet growing demands on medical infrastructure and expertise. Edge computing will help drive this transformation and the move towards digital health, while also providing a potential role for operators in the ecosystem.
Webinar
Telcos in health webinar
In this session Amy Cameron and Yesmean Luk looked at the opportunities for telcos in health. As a growing industry, with a national focus and significant digitisation challenges, healthcare is an attractive vertical for telcos seeking to build new revenues beyond core communications services.
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Telcos in health – Part 2: How to crack the healthcare opportunity
In this report, we look at nine telcos’ approaches to the healthcare market to identify keys areas of opportunity and lessons on what it takes to succeed.
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5G’s healthcare impact
This report explores the impact of 5G on the healthcare industry. It illustrates the benefits and example use cases, as well as quantifying the potential efficiency gains, that 5G will enable.
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Telcos in health – Part 1: Where is the opportunity?
We look at overarching trends in digital health and how telcos, global internet players, and health focused software and hardware vendors are positioning themselves to address the needs of resource-strained healthcare providers.
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TELUS Health: Innovation leader case study
Healthcare is an attractive vertical for telcos to address with digital solutions. Although many telcos have made attempts to capture this opportunity, TELUS stands out as an example of the value of a long-term commitment to healthcare. In this case study, we examine TELUS’ strategy in health, evidence of its success, and draw out lessons for other telcos.
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Telcos in healthcare: Winning in a long game, Babylon, and the impact of 5G
Insights on the role for telcos in healthcare, the main lessons learned to date, and the impact of 5G on healthcare and telcos within it. From the TELUS Carrier Health Summit, Toronto, May 2019.
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2020 Healthcare Q&A – What do you want to know about digital health?
We are continuously posting new insights on the hub. We have designed a short survey to solicit your feedback on what topics you would like to see us cover in our upcoming articles, videos, webinars, and reports. If you have 5 minutes, we’d love to hear your thoughts.
Article
What is digital health? 5 Application areas telcos should focus on
We outline the key application areas across the patient journey where telcos can support the development of digital health.
Article
MedIoTek Health Systems Q&A: the state of digital health
Learn about the state of the digital health market, emerging applications like remote patient monitoring, and the potential role of the telco.
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Telehealth in emerging markets: Babyl closes the gap in healthcare inequality
Learn about how solutions, like Babyl in Rwanda, are enabling wider accessibility to healthcare services in emerging markets.
Meet the telco healthcare team
Amy Cameron
Senior Analyst
Darius Singh
Senior Consultant
Chris Barraclough
Partner and Director
Reah Jamnadass
Consultant