This week I posted information relative to mobile health care. This page offers a free PDF format that goes several steps beyond the generalization point. Mobile phones can do much more today than just be there for making phone calls and again, "have the potential to save your life". This article does a good job in explaining how mobility with technology can prove to be one huge asset for healthcare. We live in the world of the "informed patient". BD
Before the arrival of the ‘informed patient’ the GP was expected to provide a diagnosis, then recommend a course of treatment. Today many patients believe they already have a diagnosis and merely wish to have it confirmed by a series of tests. The question is no longer ‘Doctor what is wrong with me?’ but ‘Doctor when can my treatment begin?’ Mobile and wireless ehealth will enhance and broaden the scope of this type of self diagnosis.
Peer pressure will drive the ehealth market, especially if consultants start reaping the benefits of venture capital backing and IPOs. The report states that, in the not too distant future, the ehealth market will enter a new phase where clinicians themselves encourage the automation of clinical processes.
While some of the applications are speculative, for example a mobile device to detect MRSA, others, such as SMS based patient reminders, have already been deployed and are earning revenue for vendors.
Source: Wireless Healthcare - Reports
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