analysis of the innovation outputs in mhealth for patient monitoring

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

o.banoslegran@utwente.nl