Impact of mHealth on Quality of Care,

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(Roebuck, 2012) posits that mHealth which in full means mobile health is a general term, which refers to the use of mobile phones as well as other wireless technology in health care.
The commonly used applications in mHealth are mobile phones and communication devices that educate customers about preventive health services. However, this service is also used for chronic disease management, disease surveillance; epidemic outbreak tracking and treatment support (Istepanian et al, 2011).
This technology is becoming a popular alternative in underserved region where there is a huge population and a high level of mobile phone usage. NGOs like mHealth Alliance are pushing for for continued use of mHealth in the developing countries.
Impact of mHealth on quality of care, life, cost of care, and access mHealth revolves around 3 major modalities; Mobile web for health management sites, Text messaging for health reminders and Native mobile health apps
Mobile web is not defined by operating system, so nearly any smartphone can access the information. Mobile web is also advantageous design-wise, in that it provides more consistent user interfaces with PC-based web. Client customization becomes relatively easy. Because of this, mobile web product developments could take place very fast. However, mobile web is inherently passive in that it cannot proactively reach out to the people to encourage them use it. Functionality could be obstructed if cell signals are not strong, or if the Wi-Fi service is not accessible. The need for reaching out to the Internet for gathering information implies that mobile web is not as fast compared with native applications (Krohn et al, 2012).
Text messaging has a functionality that is usually lacking in mobile we...

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... the manner in which patients receive his or her care and with this changing industry, the differentiation between a mobile health care strategy and health care strategy will be dissolved. The former strategy is very important as mobile is beginning to define the health care’s future.

Works Cited

Istepanian, R. S. H., Laxminarayan, S., & Pattichis, C. S. (2011). M-health: Emerging mobile health systems. New York: Springer.
Krohn, R., Metcalf, D., & Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. (2012). MHealth: From smartphones to smart systems. Chicago, IL: HIMSS.
Roebuck, K. (2012). MHealth: High-impact strategies - what you need to know : definitions, adoptions, impact, benefits, maturity, vendors. S.l: s.n.
In Donner, J., & In Mechael, P. (2012). mHealth in practice: Mobile technology for health promotion in the developing world. London: Bloomsbury.

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