eHealth: Applications and Major Vendors' Patent Deployment

Table of Contents

1.Major Applications
1.1 E-prescribing
1.2 Electronic Health Care Records
1.3 Health Information Systems
1.4 Mobile Health
1.5 Telehealth/Telemedicine

2.Patent Mining
2.1 Selecting a Patent Database
2.2 Identifying Search Keywords
2.3 Data Selection
2.4 Data Analysis
2.5 Analysis of Trends
2.5.1 Text Mining
2.5.2 Data Mining
2.5.3 Relative R&D Intensity

3. Vendors' Patent Deployment Strategies
3.1 Technology Field Deployment Analysis
3.2 Patent Index Analysis
MIC Perspective
End-User Applications Unchartered Territory for eHealth Patent Deployment
US Vendors at Higher R&D Intensity; European Vendors in Control of Key Patents

Appendix
Glossary of Terms

List of Companies

List of Tables

Table 1: Comparison of Different eHealth Services
Table 2: Key Technology Fields Identified by Text Mining for eHealth Patents
Table 3: R&D Intensity Ranking of Top 30 Assignees in the Field of eHealth
Table 4: eHealth Assignees' Technology Field Deployment Analysis
Table 5: Top 10 eHealth Patents in Terms of Citations and Patent Families
Table 6: Matrix Analysis of 10 Most Important eHealth Patents

List of Figures

Figure 1: Illustration of eHealth Services
Figure 2: Search Flow for eHealth Patents
Figure 3: Distribution Share of eHealth Patents by Sector
Figure 4: Distribution Share of eHealth Patents by Field