An Era Of Mass Digitization

The use of mobile technology in the healthcare industry has exploded in the last ten years. Mobile health or mHealth, provides an entire new aspect of the relationship between patients and their doctors and other medical providers. Mobile devices place important and critical information into a medical professional’s hands in real-time. Doctors can monitor a patient’s condition more frequently, allowing them to make better and more informed decisions and diagnoses.

Mhealth has reached the poorest of communities (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). More than 9 million patients email their physician in 2009 (Digital Health Care, 2010), because patients’ busy lifestyles do not allow time for an office visit for non-emergent health conditions. . In recent years, the expansion of mobile health (mhealth) technologies, including health text messaging, mobile phone applications, remote monitoring, and portable sensors, have changed the way health care is being delivered in the U.S. and globally (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). Patients like the convenience of communicating with his or her physician through advanced technology.

The Better Health Association is always looking for stronger ways to connect with individuals within our community. As technology has increased, individuals spend large amounts of time online or on their cell phones. Our goal is to develop an app which will allow a Better Health patient to access any time of the day 24-7. Benefits of the app will include tips on health education, which in return will allow the patient the opportunity to take preventive steps in taking care of themselves. I will deepen the leadership and management practice in order to strengthen the organization to fulfill our goals.

“More than three billion people worldwide now use the internet (Time), and 80 percent of them access if from their smartphones” (Smart Insights). A smartphone is a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, and much more. There is an abundant amount of smartphone brands out there in the world and while they all cost different prices, they all perform the same job. Each person uses their smartphone for various reasons, whether it’s for work or to make calls or texts. Smartphones have changed society in various ways, both good and bad. Although countless individuals think that smartphones have ruined American society, smartphones have actually benefited society because of more safety precautions, information on hand, and entertainment.

As consumers utilize smartphones, tablets, and other devices for other functions like social media and email, they are starting to look at these features to assist them with their healthcare. Mobile body area network devices will be a growing trend in the coming years as a way to get patients engaged in their healthcare and also to give providers routine updates on the status of patients with chronic conditions. As DeGaspari (2014) indicates, these devices can lead to improved functionality for other devices used in hospitals, such as sensors for monitoring patients that might get up and wander or be a fall risk. Telemedicine will continue to grow as payers, providers, and patients all start to realize the mutual benefits that can be

Unfortunately, along with the good must come the bad. For every positive aspect of smartphones and social media in healthcare related settings, there is an equally negative aspect. One pitfall of smartphones in healthcare is directly related to one of the positive aspects of smartphones: the availability of medical

Usage of mobile phone to connect to social media is growing all over the world. Nowadays smartphones come with numerous health-consciousness apps, too. This study is to find out users’ preference between networking and health while choosing mobile phone.

The emergency department in the modern hospital is one of the most complex clinical settings to operate. According to Johnson, Sensei, & Capasso (2012), this department is an intersection of the diagnosis and treatment of emergency cases. As a result, it experiences immense volumes of patients every day. However, in most hospitals, patients visit the facilities with an indication of what they might be suffering from. Specifically, they use their iPhones to get a list of conditions that they might be having (Boncana, 2016). This method of detection has come to be known as mHealth. In this regard, mHealth, rather mobile health, is a method that patients use to enhance their health and medical practices via the use of mobile technology. The cell phones used in this approach are equipped with medical/health software, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and patient monitoring devices.

Healthcare is evolving, and the uses of technological innovations are reshaping the delivery of healthcare services. Adoption of mobile applications for electronic health (e-health) can assist patients and providers monitor or track lifestyles activities that may indicate a change in health behavior or provide approaches to address future health challenges. As new technologies emerge, it is vital that healthcare professional scrutinize these innovations to extract useful resources that can help address challenges such as high hospital readmission for dual eligible patients. A proposal to help Trinity Health System decrease its readmission rate is to implement a hands-on e-health literacy model program for dual eligible patients and their caregivers

In today’s society, the use of mobile devices has taken over our lives in every way possible.

Results/findings: Mobile technology is constantly accessible. There are numerous applications, as well as short messaging service (SMS) interventions that use behavior changing techniques to positively impact behavior. Interventions using mobile technology have been shown to improve healthy lifestyle habits.

Mobile health (mHealth) is the practice of public healthcare and medicine supported by mobile devices. The use of mobile communication technology in health care is rapidly expanding as mobile phones, tablet computers, personal data assistants (PDA) are becoming well developed. The field of mHealth has emerged as a subdivision of electronic health (eHealth) for the use of information and communication technology. In industrialized areas, the use of mHealth applications has been very successful and is even emerging in recent years for low-income areas due to the rise of smartphones. As the online health information conditions continue to become increasingly mobile, these applications help users manage their health. Among these users are communities of color, with the proportion of Internet users who are Black or Latino nearly doubling between 2000 and 2010 (Smith). The Internet and mobile technology have become pervasive tools for health consumers that it has become one way for disadvantaged communities to gain access to health information quickly and efficiently.

M-Health is a term used by health care providers for practice medicine with support of mobile devices. In modern life a lot people especially in metropolitan area use mobile devices such as smart phones, different gadgets that can record vitals, level of heart rate est. Deborah Estrin Professor of Computer science and co-founder of M-Health program gave talk how electronic mobile devices and electronic applications can be used to record, analyze and send personal health data to the patient and to his health care provider. (TEDMED 2013) Using electronic mobile devices we generate traces. When providers capture and analyze data for different reasons they do not give this data back. This information could be analyzed by applications and give to

Wearable Technology is one of the many innovative devices used to achieve goals, manage money, and stay organized. Technology aims to create innovative ideas for not only these aspects, but to also help people become aware of their health. Starting in the year 2015, Ochsner Health System began asking entrepreneurs nationwide, to submit suggestions on possible wearable technology, that may ameliorate how patients monitor diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses. Ochsner's chief clinical transformation officer, Richard Milani, discovered Louisiana is fifth in the nation for rates of heart disease and diabetes. With a number so high ranked in the nation, Milani believes this makes Louisiana the ideal place for testing new technology,

The Apple Health app gives you an easy-to-read dashboard of your health and fitness data. In addition, with HealthKit, users can make all the unbelievable health and fitness apps on your device work together, and work harder, for the user. Thus app contains a plethora of information such as body measurements and vitals which can be saved to a day, weekly, monthly, and yearly report. The graphic user interface (GUI) is