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Employing Mobile Devices To Improve Healthcare Communications And The Quality Of Patient Care
Mobile technologies have dramatically enhanced our lives over the last few decades. They have expanded the reach and speed of communications while giving us 24/7 access to a wealth of content so we can communicate, collaborate and make better, faster decisions. This is especially true in healthcare, where mobile communications can help improve patients’ health, safety and overall care.
Although the usage of mobile technology in healthcare is relatively new, it’s growing rapidly. At Zebra, a technology solutions provider for healthcare and other industries, we conducted research, published in “The Future of Healthcare: 2020 Global Healthcare Vision Study,” which found over 95% of…
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Beyond Mobile Health Apps
herapeutic VR is a small part of the massive, complex, and rapidly changing world of digital health. While it sits on the cutting edge of today’s digital health movement, other technologies have dramatically changed health care going back to the 1990s.
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mHealth: What is it, and how can it help us?
It may therefore appear intuitive to exploit the growing worldwide popularity of cell phones — and other such personal electronic devices — to create more convenient healthcare for all.
Docs on Wheels
Mobile clinics are a great way to deliver health care.
The Mobile Health Revolution?
Rarely does a class of technologies excite physicians, patients, financeers, gadgeteers, and policymakers alike. But mobile health — the use of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets for health or medical purposes — has captured our collective imagination. Observers predict that mobile health, also known as “mHealth” or by products called “medical apps,” can save millions of lives, billions in spending, and democratize access to health care. Proponents argue that mobile health technologies will transform the ways in which we deliver, consume, measure, and pay for care, disrupting our sclerotic health care system
To deal with chronic disease, patients will need better mobile health apps
Of all the potential calamities facing humanity, the one that few people can argue about is that of the global population that is growing in numbers, age, size and incidence of chronic disease.
Why mHealth Technology Is a Huge Opportunity to Save Lives
The market for mHealth technology is rapidly growing and expected to reach $60 billion in 2020. Fitness apps have been a big factor in that growth...
Employing Mobile Devices To Improve Healthcare Communications And The Quality Of Patient Care
Mobile devices are helping modernize the healthcare delivery system, creating high-efficiency workflows that help minimize errors, reduce costs and improve patient care.
MobiHealthNews
MobiHealthNews, founded in 2008, has quickly become the leading provider of news, commentary, online events and research for the global mobile health community. Our team works hard to deliver one of the best curated and most insightful publications focused on digital health today.
The Journal of mHealth
The essential resource for healthtech innovation.
Capsule
Capsule Technologies is a leading global provider of medical device integration, clinical surveillance and patient monitoring for hospitals and healthcare organizations.
Health eHeart
Real data from people like you can help doctors predict and prevent heart disease. Now it's easy to contribute information that will help the effort to save millions of lives.
LabDoor
In every drugstore aisle in America, shoppers cast the classic pose: two products in hand, confusion on their faces as they attempt to decipher the advertising claims and safety labels. It's an important decision, but it is so hard to be certain you're making the right call. We are decades overdue for a trusted way to choose the best products. LabDoor will change the balance of power in these industries from marketing hype to real facts.
Mango Health
Engaging patients and improving health outcomes.
Omada
We inspire lifestyle change through evidence-based digital health programs.
Proteus Digital Health
We see two trends: First, there are more people with mobile phones than there are with access to clean, running water. Second, chronic, often lifestyle-related diseases like diabetes are the world’s biggest healthcare problem, and our health systems can’t cope because they are optimized to treat the acute conditions prevalent decades ago.
Switch Health
Bridging the gap between patient-centered care and digital innovation.
Vecna
Create a seamless patient experience and achieve Meaningful Use by giving patients online access to their demographic information.
Voalte
In today’s healthcare scenario – with its shortage of nurses and other caregivers and the growing demands of an aging population – fast, effective, unified communication is more important than ever before.
Center for Connected Health
We are engaging patients, providers and the connected health community to deliver quality care outside of traditional medical settings. Telehealth, remote care and disease management initiatives reflect the opportunities for technology-enabled care programs. Join us - share your thoughts, learn from others - help transform healthcare.
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