Mobile Technology in Healthcare

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Innovations in mobile technology have brought remote healthcare management to the forefront of advanced medical care. The ability to record the cardiac activity of a patient at home has been available for some time. But that method utilized a recording device worn by the patient, which needed to be brought in to a hospital or doctor’s office for a healthcare professional to analyze. Today, real-time monitoring in the patient’s home is a reality.
Three of the telecommunication giants have stepped into wireless healthcare management arena in efforts to provide advanced medical care through new digital delivery systems. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have created partnerships with health care monitoring vendors to provide in home services to chronically ill patients. Valued Relationships Inc. a healthcare monitoring vendor, works with AT&T to provide services patients with chronic breathing and heart illnesses.
"Health plans and hospitals will no longer have to actively monitor the information because VRI's call center will monitor it for them. VRI will only contact them in a case in which a clinician is needed to give the care required to keep them from being hospitalized." 1
Medical and technology professionals have forecasted the home based delivery model will continue to grow. This method of care presents some questions and concerns for potential patients. Some wonder if this type of healthcare will replace or minimize the need for an individual to visit the doctor or attend an appointment at the hospital. New technology could minimize the human interaction and jobs that are currently necessary to deliver a high level of care many people have come to expect. As expected, healthcare administrators have already identified the tremendous...

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