Affiliations: [a] ENDEPUSresearch, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA | [b] University Paul Cezanne III (Aix Marseille University), Aix-en-Provence, France
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Address for correspondence: Professor Christine C. Huttin, ENDEPUSresearch, Inc., 1770 Massachusetts Avenue Box 591, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA. E-mail: Chris.huttin@comcast.net.
Abstract: This paper presents tools and concepts to analyze the business environment of the biopharmaceutical industry. It was presented at MEDETEL 2010. Emerging paradigms appear in that industry and new ways to value life science technologies are developed especially using mobile economics analysis. At a time, mobile computing technologies revolutionize the field of health care, this paper contributes to show how the value chain concept can be useful to analyze the value system in a mobile computing environment. It is also a milestone for the designs of future technology platforms and of health care infrastructure, in order to retain enough value between innovators, new and traditionnal players from life science, IT and other new comers, in a fragmented global competitive environment.
Keywords: Cost analysis, health economics, medical technologies, e-health
