mHealth Market to Grow 22% From 2011 to 2014 in United States

The mobile health—mHealth—market in the United States is projected to increase by 22% per year between 2011 and 2014, growing from $2.1 billion in 2011, to $3.7 billion in 2014. In 2010, the at $1.8 billion, representing three percent of the $80 billion spent on health care information technology in the United States in 2010. Overall spending for inpatient and outpatient health care services is about $1.3 trillion annually in the United States. mHealth includes applications for patient education and awareness, remote data collection, remote monitoring, communication and training for health care workers, disease . . .