Telemedicine & Remote Care Patents: Who Leads, Where the Gaps Are 2026
- 34.4% sits with five assignees. 178 of 518 records in scope belong to the top five filers, while a long tail of single- and low-filing entrants holds the rest.
- Filing has cooled from its 2019 peak. Activity peaked at 52 records in 2019; the last complete year (2021→2024) shows a -18% move, from 50 down to 41 records.
- Healthcare informatics dominates the claim map. G16H appears in 53.5% of the 518 records in scope, more than any other IPC subclass tracked in this dataset.
Filing growth compares 2021 (50 records) with 2024 (41) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field. Top-5 share is the combined record count of the five largest assignees divided by all 518 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
What the telemedicine and remote care patent record actually shows
The dataset in scope covers 518 published records filed against a search string joining remote-care and virtual-healthcare terms with patient-record, clinical-decision and remote-monitoring terms. That combination captures the connective layer of telemedicine — not the sensor or the video codec alone, but the software and data pathways that turn a remote encounter into a clinical record. Patent families, rather than raw document counts, are the unit used across the assignee ranking, which neutralises continuation filings and multi-jurisdiction duplicates.
Filing rose sharply through the late 2010s, peaked in 2019, and has since given back some of that ground through the most recent complete filing year. Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the 2025-2026 figures in this dataset are still filling in and should not be read as a slowdown on their own.
Filing trends and technology composition
Two views of the same 518 records: how filing activity has moved year over year, and which IPC subclasses carry the claim density.
A 2019 peak, then a partial retreat
Filings climbed from 14 in 2017 to a peak of 52 in 2019. The last stretch that can be treated as complete, 2021 to 2024, moved from 50 records down to 41 — an 18% decline that predates the still-incomplete 2025-2026 window.
Healthcare informatics carries the claim weight
G16H (healthcare informatics) appears in 53.5% of the 518 records in scope, ahead of A61B diagnosis and surgery at 31.9% and G06F data processing at 25.7%. Electrotherapy (A61N), business/admin data processing (G06Q), digital transmission (H04L), body-fluid devices (A61M) and pictorial communication (H04N) each cover a narrower but still material share, since most records carry more than one class.
Shares are the percentage of the 518 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
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Virtual healthcare personal assistant (US20180181719A1, Cerner Innovation)
A virtual healthcare personal assistant is provided to assist a patient in healthcare decision making. Healthcare data is received for the patient from multiple interfaces including an electronic health record, insurance systems, pharmacy systems, remote monitoring systems, clinician scheduling systems, patient social media systems, and a patient mobile device. The healthcare data is then provided to a machine learning device that is trained to analyze the healthcare data. Based on the analysis, medical and preventive healthcare personal assistant services are delivered to the patient via the patient mobile device.Filed by Cerner Innovation, published 2018-06-28. Notable for aggregating disparate healthcare data streams — EHR, insurance, pharmacy, remote monitoring, scheduling and even social media — into a single machine-learning pipeline ahead of most peer filings in this dataset.
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US6697103B1 | Integrated network for monitoring remote objects | 773 |
| 2 | US20140074454A1 | Conversational Virtual Healthcare Assistant | 583 |
| 3 | US20140337048A1 | Conversational Virtual Healthcare Assistant | 406 |
| 4 | US20010010541A1 | Integrated network for monitoring remote objects | 326 |
| 5 | US20130262155A1 | System and method for collection and distibution of medical information | 274 |
| 6 | US20180197624A1 | Medical assistant | 260 |
| 7 | US20020055917A1 | Method, apparatus, and medium using a master control file for computer software interoperability between disp… | 225 |
| 8 | US20040073098A1 | Self-adaptive system for the analysis of biomedical signals of a patient | 222 |
| 9 | US20030145854A1 | Apparatuses and methods for automatically assessing and monitoring a patient's responsiveness | 197 |
| 10 | US20010022615A1 | Integrated network for monitoring remote objects | 194 |
Citation counts favour older records simply by virtue of having had more time to accumulate citations inside this corpus — read them as a signal of influence, not of current commercial weight.
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Three reads on concentration, timing and citation weight that matter more than the headline record count.
The top of the field is real, but not dominant
178 of the 518 records in scope belong to five assignees, and the top ten combined reach 45.8% (237 records). That leaves more than half the field to a long tail — the leader alone holds 94 records against a fifth-place figure of 15, so the drop-off past the leader is steep.
Momentum has eased from a 2019 high
Filings peaked at 52 records in 2019. The most recent span that can be treated as complete, 2021 to 2024, fell from 50 to 41 records — an 18% pullback. Anything after 2024 is still filling in under normal publication lag and should not be read as continued decline.
Old monitoring architecture still anchors citation counts
The most-cited record in scope, an integrated network for monitoring remote objects, carries 773 citations, with a related virtual-healthcare-assistant filing at 583. Older records accumulate citations simply by being in the corpus longer, so treat these as markers of foundational influence rather than current competitive weight.
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Assignee concentration and where activity is moving
The ranked list covers 100 companies across the 518 records in scope. A handful of names carry meaningful volume; most of the list holds only a handful of families each.
One assignee well ahead of the field
The leading assignee holds 94 records, far more than the fifth-place figure of 15 or the tenth-place figure of 11 — a steep drop rather than a gradual taper.
A tight inventor cluster inside the tail
Ten co-assignee pairs appear in the dataset; the three strongest pairs each share 11 records, all drawn from the same small group of individual co-filers rather than corporate joint ventures.
Recent-year activity has gone quiet even at the top
Several of the most active historical filers show zero filings in the latest year, and the one entity still filing recorded only one record with a -50% year-on-year change. That is consistent with the broader 2021-2024 pullback rather than a sign any single player has pulled ahead.
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| ADVANCED NEUROMODULATION SYSTEMS INC | 1 | -50% |
| Scott Laboratories Inc | 0 | — |
| OD VISION INC | 0 | -100% |
| JOAO RAYMOND ANTHONY | 0 | -100% |
| Magic Leap Inc | 0 | — |
| HEALTHTAP | 0 | — |
| AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | 0 | — |
| KUNCHAKARRA SANJAY | 0 | -100% |
Turning this landscape into a filing decision
The ranking and IPC breakdown show where claim space is dense and where it is not. The next step is testing a specific claim against that map.
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Run a candidate claim against the records held by the leading assignee and the next four ranked filers to see how close it sits to existing language in G16H and A61B.
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Sub-areas like remote-billing workflows and store-and-forward diagnostics show thinner filing density than the core informatics classes — worth monitoring before that changes.
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Current-year figures understate real filing activity because of publication lag; revisit the trend once another six to twelve months of records have posted.
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Concentration is moderate: the top five assignees hold 178 of the 518 records in scope, or 34.4%, and the top ten reach 45.8% with 237 records. The leader alone accounts for 94 records, far ahead of the fifth-place figure of 15, so the drop-off after the top filer is steep. More than half the field, however, sits outside the top ten, spread across a long tail of assignees with only a handful of filings each — meaning a new entrant is not automatically boxed out by a handful of dominant players.
Filing peaked at 52 records in 2019 and the last filing span that can be treated as complete, 2021 to 2024, fell from 50 to 41 records, an 18% pullback. Figures for 2025 and 2026 in this dataset are still incomplete because publication typically lags actual filing by around 18 months, so they should not yet be read as continued decline. The honest read is that activity has eased from its 2019 high, with the most recent trend line still forming.
G16H, healthcare informatics, appears in 53.5% of the 518 records in scope and is the single most common class in this dataset. A61B (diagnosis and surgery) follows at 31.9% and G06F (electric digital data processing) at 25.7%, with A61N, G06Q, H04L, A61M and H04N covering narrower but still meaningful shares. Because a single record can carry several IPC classes, these percentages add up to more than 100% and should be read as overlapping coverage rather than a strict breakdown.
US20180181719A1, filed by Cerner Innovation and published in mid-2018, describes a virtual healthcare personal assistant that pulls data from electronic health records, insurance systems, pharmacy systems, remote monitoring devices, clinician scheduling systems and even patient social media into a machine-learning pipeline that then delivers personalised healthcare guidance to the patient's mobile device. Its significance in this landscape is the breadth of data sources it claims to unify under one assistant architecture, ahead of many later filings that address only a single data channel. Anyone building a comparable multi-source assistant should map their data-ingestion and recommendation logic against this filing specifically.
The densest claim activity sits in healthcare informatics and diagnosis-related classes, which leaves adjacent operational areas comparatively thin: remote video-consult triage protocols, patient-side wearable-to-EHR handoff, multi-payer remote billing workflows, cross-border remote prescribing logic and asynchronous store-and-forward diagnostics all show lighter filing density relative to the core classes. That thinness is a signal of open claim space, not of low commercial relevance — these are workflow layers every telemedicine platform still needs to solve. Filers willing to draft narrowly around one of these specific workflows are less likely to run into the dense prior art sitting on the core informatics classes.
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