A reference framework of mhealth patents for innovative services

mHealth is an emerging and rapidly developing field with huge exploitation expectancies both in improving life quality of patients and in market opportunities. Patents and innovations in mHealth represents a priority for companies to enter and exploit their know-how and market requests. This paper focuses on the analysis of the Intellectual Property Rights in the field of mHealth systems to draw a reference knowledge framework of the mHealth scenario. An up-to-date detailed categorization, the geographical distribution and the identification of top players in mHealth is presented.