How Mobile Apps in Healthcare Can Help Patients and Reduce Costs

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2. How Mobile Apps in Healthcare Can Help Patients and Reduce Costs
Since the launch of the Apple iPhone in 2007, several mobile apps for healthcare
have been launched on the iTunes store. This phenomenon is not restricted to the
iPhone alone. Android Market too has a separate section for Healthcare apps. By
using a combination of software applications and hardware devices, mobile
devices can benefit patients as well as doctors and hospitals by providing efficient
health monitoring at reduced costs. Until now, Mobile Healthcare apps have been
in use mainly in developed countries, where they have been utilised for providing
health monitoring or wireless consultations. However, with the growing use of
mobile devices in developing countries, these apps can help deliver quality
healthcare even to patients in remote villages in Bangladesh, Pakistan or India.
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3. How Mobile Apps in Healthcare Can Help Patients and Reduce Costs
According to a study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group and Telenor,
there are around 500 mobile healthcare projects that are being run worldwide. A
report by Juniper Research predicts that there will be 3 million users of remote
monitoring apps by 2016. There is no doubt about the tremendous opportunity in
the mobile healthcare sector, but there are also several challenges that providers
and users will have to overcome before it can be adopted on a larger scale.
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4. How Mobile Apps in Healthcare Can Help Patients and Reduce Costs
The largest portion of revenues from Mobile Healthcare apps will probably come
from customers, especially with smartphones gaining popularity. From an app
that helps in managing medication schedules to an iPhone app that helps detect
the tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease, the possibilities are endless.
On a more complex scale, there are apps currently being tested for helping
cardiac patients get timely medical assistance by syncing pacemakers and other
cardiac devices to wireless mobile networks. However, there are issues to be
dealt with such as getting patients to input data on a daily basis and changing
social perceptions about the effectiveness of these apps. In the USA, the FDA’s
proposed guidelines for regulating mobile medical apps could see a sharp
increase in the consumer usage of approved apps.
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5. How Mobile Apps in Healthcare Can Help Patients and Reduce Costs
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6. How Mobile Apps in Healthcare Can Help Patients and Reduce Costs
For doctors and hospitals, Mobile Apps in Healthcare will go a long way towards
ensuring delivery of medical assistance as well as reducing costs. In the UK, for
instance, the National Health Service has announced that it will get doctors to
prescribe apps to patients for monitoring their health, so that the costs involved
in regular health visits can be reduced. From daily tracking of blood pressure to
monitoring blood sugar levels and then transmitting this data through the apps to
the healthcare professional, medical apps would help provide the diagnosis
without the need to visit the clinic each time. Once again, while this would work
well in the UK, where health records are centralised and available in a digital
format, it could pose more of a challenge in developing countries as well as
countries like the US where healthcare is privatised.
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7. How Mobile Apps in Healthcare Can Help Patients and Reduce Costs
Despite these challenges, there’s no denying the power of mobile medical apps.
In the US, an app is under trial whereby hospitals can send home patients
recovering from heart failure, by providing them a remote monitoring kit that
helps them stay connected with a nurse at all times. Countries such as Norway,
Denmark and Sweden could save up to Є2.5 billion in the care of elderly patients
by substituting institutional care with mobile monitoring services. The real
usefulness of mobile apps in healthcare would actually be felt in developing
countries, where these devices can be used to provide clinical interventions to
people in rural areas who do not have access to quality medical care.
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8. How Mobile Apps in Healthcare Can Help Patients and Reduce Costs
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9. Summary
There is no doubt that mobile apps in healthcare will be the way of the future.
There are infrastructural and regulatory issues to be addressed before it gains
momentum worldwide. While large scale clinical trials as well as regulation will
help solve the latter issue, the large investments being made by major hardware
& peripheral manufacturers and service providers such as AT&T, Verizon and
Qualcomm will help in putting the required infrastructure in place in the near
future. Juniper Research forecasts that Mobile Healthcare and Medical Apps will
generate.
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