What is mHealth? What benefits does mHealth bring to the development of healthcare?

HIMSS, an international healthcare membership organization, gives the definition of mHealth, which is the provision of healthcare services and information through the use of mobile communication technologies-such as PDAs, cell phones, and satellite communications, and specifically in the field of the mobile Internet, which is based on the medical and healthcare apps of mobile terminal systems such as Android and iOS. App applications are mainly based on mobile terminal systems such as Android and iOS. It provides an effective method for medical and health services in developing countries, and in the case of shortage of medical human resources, medical problems in developing countries can be solved through mHealth.

Mobile healthcare makes healthcare services "readily available", changing the traditional way of life in which people could only go to the hospital to see a doctor. Whether at home or on the road, people are able to listen to doctors' advice or obtain a variety of health-related information at any time. Medical services, because of the addition of mobile communications technology, will not only save a lot of time and cost for registration, waiting in line or even take transportation to go, and will be more efficient to guide people to develop good habits, change the cure for disease prevention.