Question

Discuss the current definition of mHealth and how mobile devices are affecting patients, physicians, educators and researchers.

What are some known limitations and challenges facing mHealth?

Answer 1

When healthcare facility is using mobile phones and other wireless technology, it can be considered as the mHealth or mobile health. There are various usage of mHealth such as ithelps to track the epidemic outbreak, it also supports disease treatment and surveillence. Mobile devices are affecting all the healthcare related staffs in many ways such as healthcare professionals are now using smartphones and tabs for their functions instead of paper and PDA. Physicians can be able to access to electronic health records or EHRs as well as decision support tools so as to improve their care. They also get access to personal data of the patients. On the other hand, when the patients are using mobile technology for their medical facilities, their chances of readmitting become less. They get daily updates regarding their health related enquiry and many reminders for medications, healthy habits, nuitrition intakes, etc. which reduces their readmission rate.

Some of the limitations of mHealth are -

1. mHealth is unable to understand the ways of using the healthcare data by the vendors and other parties.
2. There is also no guarantee of the protection of the healthcare data of the patients.
3. Some of the information of mHealth may not be accurate.

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