Application Of Mobile Phone Application

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.

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

Telehealth is the use of electronic information to support long distance clinical health care, patient education, and public health administration. Telehealth involves video conferences, internet, streaming media, and wireless communication to deliver health related services. It encompasses the preventative, promotive, and curative aspects of health care. This system exchanges health related data and other information between the patient and the health care professional to help with the diagnosis and management of conditions. It allows for conferencing between health care professionals and patients in “real time”, remote patient monitoring (such as the blood pressure monitor feeding results through the system), electronic consultation, transmission of medical data, health advice in emergency cases, and long distance patient education. Telehealth is great for monitoring a client in between doctor appointments in order to assess their progression. This benefits the clients because it reduces the need for hospitalizations and visits to the emergency room, while improving their quality of life.

Improving access to healthcare facilities is only a part of the solution. With the ownership of cell phones becoming increasingly common in Nigeria, we can use these smartphones to empower Nigerians with knowledge on disease symptoms, treatments, and activity. Having knowledge on at hand can help with reducing misconceptions and stigmas of modern healthcare, stay up to date with disease trends or outbreaks, and hopefully prevent people from going to the hospital.

Telemedicine refers to the use of medical information, which is exchanged from one place to another through several electronic communications to improve the health status of patients. Telehealth is closely associated with the term telemedicine. Telehealth encompasses a broader definition of the remote healthcare, which does not necessarily involve any clinical services. As such, transmission of images, video conferencing, medical education, e-health such as patient portals and nursing centers are all part of telehealth and telemedicine. Telehealth and telemedicine are critical issues within the healthcare sector for both the practitioners and the consumers. With the increase in telecommunications development, the internet, and lowered costs of technology, the use of telehealth and telemedicine may have a revolutionary and profound impacts in the field of medical care worldwide. Telemedicine is imperative to healthcare professionals because it is cost efficient, improves access to health care and the increased convenience for

The delivery of health care has always been influenced by technological developments and innovations. This is particularly true in modern health care professionals where they are obsessed with technology and rush to apply them. One of the most recent applications of ICT – Information and computer technology- is telehealth. Telehealth is the use of communication, diagnostic and information technology to provide health care when patients and providers are geographically separated [2], Technologies include videoconferencing, the internet, store -and-forward imaging, streaming media, terrestrial and wireless communications. Telehealth could be as simple as two health professionals discussing a case over the telephone or as

Availability of new and wonderful applications for current day “smart phones” is exploding. Many new “apps” to accomplish a myriad of things are appearing almost daily. Smart entrepreneurs are recognizing that the technologies (global communications networks, wide bandwidths, encryption) to support widespread adoption of telehealth have been put in place by governments and the telecomm companies and only diverse and innovative work-based applications to ride on this infrastructure are missing, The money-making market attraction for telehealth applications now exists and will result in the development of necessary applications for telehealth. The ways that telehealth can contribute to the patient’s health care is limited only by the imagination

According to a government study, bringing telemedicine to places in sub-Saharan Africa, made-up of 33 of the 48 globally poorest countries, would be vital to the two main branches of healthcare: preventive and emergency, where countries that lack proper infrastructure leave people and communities disease-ridden (Wamala). In some countries, such as Ethiopia and South Africa, there is significant progress in Telemedicine, while in countries such as Burkina Faso and Nigeria the progress is slow because of lack of political support. The study noted that while it is not always practical to have doctors deployed to certain regions where medical need is required, telemedicine and empowering people through video and cellular communication is critical in areas to prevent disease from occurring in the first place, especially in places like the rural poor, where delivering medicine is a

More importantly, it is typically referred to as telecommunication system in healthcare. Telecommunication is a system which is used by providers, through which an interactive video conference can be used to provide care to patients, patient medical records are easily accessed regardless of where and providers through a remote can monitor a patient from a distance. Telemedicine is used in different situations. For instance, it gives an avenue for provider-to-provider consultation, it supports individuals in providing or transmitting their health information in the comfort of their homes, and it gives access to patient provider communication, which most time is done either through emails or video conferences. Not only but also, telemedicine in different unique ways has changed the way services are delivered across the

Technologies have made it easier for advancements in health care and communication. However this advancement is not beneficial to everyone since some people live in a very remote place. Telemedicine provides a lot of benefits such as life-saving treatment in remote places, self-sustain healthcare, fast communication with the doctors, and don’t have to travel vast distance to get help. Project operation village health and project Tanzania can show a lot the benefit that telemedicine provide. This essay will compare the two projects and their benefits.

Its applications is known to be a prospect of developing organizations by networking , achieving high standards of quality care, promoting wellness and disease control and cost reductions. The beauty of telemedicine is giving an opportunity for patient’s to be discharged earlier from hospital (George et. al. 2008). As a private hospital we are aware that the medical bills are remarkably high. Thus this would help to reduce the financial burden for the patient and their family. In healthcare point of view it is beneficial to the organizations as the turnover is more rapid. By having telemedicine patients are empowered to take care of their own health (Vernic, 2012). Researcher had proven that patients who are empowered shows good improvement in managing and controlling their disease. Another plus point that I realize with telemedicine is the commitments of the family members. I strongly believe that family members play a major role in assisting patients to recover

Moreover, mobile coverage extended to every part of the country. Online and mHealth services (voice call, complaint suggestions and care advice through SMS etc) has been running in the country about two decades(Chowdhury, 2014), (Van De Belt et al., 2014), (Sarwar, 2015) and the country has started its first national call center in 2016. All this initiatives made the stage for telepsychiatry to come into action.

Applications make Android phones to be more useful than ever. With apps you can easily perform difficult task that you cannot ordinarily finish on time using desktop. Not that desktop has lost its value since the development of android apps. The point is that apps have really simplify the way people do things on their phone and that could explain the reason why there are millions of applications in the Google Play Store.

In order to fulfil the task presented, which was to create an android app which displays a university campus map – with clickable buildings showing the available computers in the building while also having buttons for reserving a computer. In addition to being able to cancel a reservation, and alter the number of computers available dependant on reserving or cancelling reservations.