Telehealth on the rise, page-2896

A burgeoning teleconsultation platform market with key regional differencesThe resulting European landscape for teleconsultation platform companies serves as a litmus test for the telemedicine environments created in each country. Established countries, like Sweden, the UK, and France are seeing healthy competition between platform providers and are attracting additional start-ups into their markets as Figure £3 shows. In countries in the developing or initial stages, there is less choice of teleconsultation providers, yet the current pandemic crisis is inducing market entry by additional players, both domestically and from other countries.

Figure £3: European Teleconsultation Platforms in 2020

Note: Swedish platform KRY has expanded in France and Germany under the name Livi.
Source: Health Advances analysis, CBCN, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Sanita Digitale.