The Global Mobile Wellness Management Market is to Hit 10.8 Billion USD. III Collaborates with Continua to Assist the Application Service Development of Personal Mobile Wellness Industry in Taiwan.
Date: 2015/01/30
According to the data collected by Research2guidance, a market research institute, the market scale of mobile wellness management was up to 3.17 billion US dollars in 2013 and the amount is expected to grow continuously to 10.82 billion in 2016. The compound growth rate reaches a stunning high level at 72% per year. To promote smart personal mobile wellness management innovative applications, assist domestic firms apply information communication technologies to increase efficiency, and facilitate the healthy development of the whole industry environment, the Industry Development Augmentation Division (IDAD) of III made extra efforts to join Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA), an organization advocated by Continua, issuing international wellness management standards, and further supported domestic enterprises to participate in Continua and to meet international network standards. Additionally, III expects to help develop various products that comply with international network technical regulations, expedite personal mobile wellness management application services, and market the products to the other areas in Asia or around the world.
III IDAD Director General Dr. Hsien-Tang, Ko indicates that the manufacturing industry in Taiwan plays a paramount role in the global supply chain. Taiwan companies in the industry not only act as important OEM/ODM partners for international well-known brands especially in the fields of health measurement devices or medical equipment, but also provide markets around the world with delicately manufactured information communication products. With world class medical system in Taiwan, III IDAD has confidence in assisting related companies to make the best use of smart mobile technologies, integrate personal wellness management enterprises from upstream to downstream to collaborate with each other, facilitate the realization of innovative application of personal mobile wellness technologies in Taiwan, and promote the developed products to the global intelligent wellness management service markets.
In fact, Continua adopts ISO/IEEE 11073 as the common technical standards. The internationally adopted network standard is beneficial to recording all data of your body on each device. Through technologies such as blue tooth, USB, and ZigBee, information on thermometers, blood pressure meters, blood sugar meters, body weight scales, fitness equipment, and medical care devices can be recorded and uploaded to back-end systems or cloud databases for later processing or application by wireless technologies.
PCHA refers to the alliance promoted collectively by Continua Health Alliance, mHealth Summit, and HIMSS. In addition to the tasks to unite common network standard and make sure the compliance and Interoperability (C&I) of certified devices, what is more important is the promotion of health technology applications related to individual life. This will make the measurement of an individual daily life more convenient and efficient.
Looking into the future, III and PCHA will assist more companies join the alliance and pass Continua technology standards by promotion activities and certification testing. To build a C&I environment between personal mobile wellness management devices and database, III hopes to attract more system and service providers devoting into the industry. By this way, III can establish the value chain of smart personal mobile wellness management industry, further create an industry ecosystem, promote the industry upgrade in Taiwan, and grasp, for our country, the leading business development opportunities of the global intelligent mobile wellness management industry.
*Note: PCHA(Personal Connected Health Alliance)was established collectively by Continua Health Alliance, mHealth Summit, and HIMSS which focuses on persuading consumers adopting personal health solution packages that meet daily life demand and are convenient to use, integrating resources among various partners from unique advantages in different fields to global influence, devoting to the broad understanding and wide application of personal health technologies, reaching the goal of plug-and-play and easy operation, strengthening the ability for each individual to self-manage personal health at any time and location, and facilitating the usage number growth of new health monitor devices and applications in the wellness service enterprises and consumers. Reference Website: www.pchalliance.org
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