Product Description
This report is part of the global research program – The mHealth App Developer Economics, which was conducted for the fifth time this year. This year more than 4,400 app developers, app publishers, healthcare professionals and decision makers participated in the study making it the largest study on mHealth globally.
The report “EU mHealth Market Conditions Benchmarking 2015” is presented in two parts:
1. mHealth practitioners perception of a country and its drivers and barriers. The first part presents the insights of more than 4,400 mHealth app developers and practitioners and their experience of doing business in the EU.
2. The second part of the report provides a detailed ranking of the 28 EU member states along 5 dimensions and 26 criteria:
– eHealth adoption (patients and doctors usage of technology for healthcare, etc.)
– Level of digitalization (compatible devices penetration, internet usage, etc.)
– Market potential (market size and level of healthcare spending, etc.)
– mHealth regulations (implementation of EHR or ePrescription systems, existence of prohibitive laws, etc.)
– Ease of starting and doing business (taxes, time needed to start business, etc.)
– Detailed ranking of countries in their overall readiness for mHealth as well as breakdown by the 5 dimensions and 26 criteria
– Recommended approach when entering the EU mHealth app market
Table of contents
1 Summary
2 Scope and methodology of the study
3 mHealth App market EU countries ranking
4 Country profiles
4.1 Austria
4.1.1 Austria- summary
4.1.2 Austria- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.1.3 Austria- mHealth market readiness
4.2 Belgium
4.2.1 Belgium- summary
4.2.2 Belgium- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.2.3 Belgium- mHealth market readiness
4.3 Croatia
4.3.1 Croatia- summary
4.3.2 Croatia- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.3.3 Croatia- mHealth market readiness
4.4 Czech Republic
4.4.1 Czech Republic- summary
4.4.2 Czech Republic- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.4.3 Czech Republic- mHealth market readiness
4.5 Denmark
4.5.1 Denmark- summary
4.5.2 Denmark- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.5.3 Denmark- mHealth market readiness
4.6 Estonia
4.6.1 Estonia- summary
4.6.2 Estonia- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.6.3 Estonia- mHealth market readiness
4.7 Finland
4.7.1 Finland- summary
4.7.2 Finland- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.7.3 Finland- mHealth market readiness
4.8 France
4.8.1 France- summary
4.8.2 France- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.8.3 France- mHealth market readiness
4.9 Germany
4.9.1 Germany- summary
4.9.2 Germany- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.9.3 Germany- mHealth market readiness
4.10 Greece
4.10.1 Greece- summary
4.10.2 Greece- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.10.3 Greece- mHealth market readiness
4.11 Hungary
4.11.1 Hungary- summary
4.11.2 Hungary- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.11.3 Hungary- mHealth market readiness
4.12 Ireland
4.12.1 Ireland- summary
4.12.2 Ireland- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.12.3 Ireland- mHealth market readiness
4.13 Italy
4.13.1 Italy- summary
4.13.2 Italy- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.13.3 Italy- mHealth market readiness
4.14 Latvia
4.14.1 Latvia- summary
4.14.2 Latvia- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.14.3 Latvia- mHealth market readiness
4.15 Lithuania
4.15.1 Lithuania- summary
4.15.2 Lithuania- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.15.3 Lithuania- mHealth market readiness
4.16 Netherlands
4.16.1 Netherlands- summary
4.16.2 Netherlands- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.16.3 Netherlands- mHealth market readiness
4.17 Poland
4.17.1 Poland- summary
4.17.2 Poland- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.17.3 Poland- mHealth market readiness
4.18 Portugal
4.18.1 Portugal- summary
4.18.2 Portugal- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.18.3 Portugal- mHealth market readiness
4.19 Romania
4.19.1 Romania- summary
4.19.2 Romania- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.19.3 Romania- mHealth market readiness 48
4.20 Spain
4.20.1 Spain- summary
4.20.2 Spain- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.20.3 Spain- mHealth market readiness
4.21 Sweden
4.21.1 Sweden- summary
4.21.2 Sweden- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.21.3 Sweden- mHealth market readiness
4.22 United Kingdom
4.22.1 United Kingdom- summary
4.22.2 United Kingdom- mHealth practitioners’ view
4.22.3 United Kingdom- mHealth market readiness
4.23 Countries excluded from ranking
4.23.1 Bulgaria- mHealth market readiness
4.23.2 Cyprus- mHealth market readiness
4.23.3 Luxembourg- mHealth market readiness
4.23.4 Malta- mHealth market readiness
4.23.5 Slovakia- mHealth market readiness
4.23.6 Slovenia- mHealth market readiness
5 Detailed country comparison
5.1 Market potential
5.1.1 Market potential score
5.1.2 Population
5.1.3 Health expenditure as % of GDP
5.1.4 Health expenditure per capita
5.1.5 Out-of-pocket health expenditure
5.1.6 Number of physicians
5.1.7 Number of nurses
5.1.8 Number of hospitals
5.2 Level of digitalization
5.2.1 Level of digitalization score
5.2.2 Regular internet users
5.2.3 Mobile internet users (3G)
5.2.4 Smartphone penetration among adult population
5.2.5 Tablet penetration among adult population
5.2.6 Average number of actively used apps
5.3 eHealth adoption
5.3.1 eHealth adoption
5.3.2 Patients seeking health information online
5.3.3 Patients making appointment via Web
5.3.4 GPs using ePrescription
5.3.5 GPs exchanging patient data electronically
5.4 Regulations
5.4.1 Regulatory frameworks’ friendliness score
5.4.2 Implementation of ePrescription system
5.4.3 Implementation of shared HER
5.4.4 Standards on EHR interoperability
5.4.5 Permission for secondary usage of EHR data
5.4.6 Other mHealth regulations
5.5 Ease of starting business
5.5.1 Ease of starting business score
5.5.2 Average time required to start a business
5.5.3 Average number of regulatory procedures
5.5.4 Taxes paid by business
6 Guidelines for mHealth companies
6.1 Guidelines for consumer oriented mHealth solutions
6.2. Guidelines for doctors oriented mHealth solutions
7 Appendix
7.1 About research2guidance
7.2 EU mHealth App Business Accelerator
