The increasing use of smartphones will play a pivotal role in transforming healthcare, with analysts predicting the global mobile health market will grow at an impressive compound annual growth rate of 33.5 per cent in the next five years.
The rally is likely to be led by the continued growth of mobile cellular networks in Asian countries, coupled with increased affordability of compatible smartphone devices and growing awareness among patients of connected healthcare applications.
Reports suggest that by 2017, the Asia Pacific region will have nearly three billion smartphone users out of a predicted 5.10 billion across the globe.
