Mobile healthcare is a form of healthcare that provides medical services and information through the use of mobile communication technologies, such as PDAs, cellular phones, and satellites, including remote patient monitoring, videoconferencing, online counseling, personal medical care, and wireless access to electronic cases and prescriptions. Mobile healthcare, as an important branch of the e-healthcare field, is an innovative technology with great potential in the medical field.
Second, the role of mobile health care are what
Mobile health care has changed the past patients can only go to the hospital to see the traditional way, for the traditional health care also has to promote the role of the construction of health care system. The role of mHealth is mainly:
1, to provide medical knowledge education and medical information services
mHealth through the cell phone to disseminate a large amount of health information to the public, including the provision of some of the simple test of the disease, self-treatment or protection of medical knowledge and health information, can be used for the prevention of disease and to improve the health of citizens' living habits.
2. Provide health consulting services
Citizens can obtain targeted health information through the mHealth platform, as well as access to hospitals and doctors' resources, preliminary consultations on disease specialties, and provide patients with a platform to provide feedback on the quality and effectiveness of the medical services provided by hospitals and doctors.
3, remote diagnosis and treatment
Mobile medical care is part of telemedicine, can remotely diagnose and deal with the patient, with the development of smart phones, now the mobile medical applications can be the patient's injured parts of the photo, the relevant information transmitted to the remote end of the doctor, to help the doctor's initial judgment, and timely treatment of the condition.
4, the hospital internal information exchange
Mobile medical can also be widely applied to the internal management of the hospital, such as doctors and nurses shift handover when the patient's information transfer, between the various departments of the information communication between the medical staff.
5. Self-learning for healthcare professionals
Doctors can also learn about new treatment options through the mHealth platform, allowing them to work in a way that meets the new requirements of evidence-based medicine, as well as facilitating doctors' ability to check the name of the medication for the disease in question, its varieties, and the way in which it is being used, among other information.
6, outpatient appointments
The simple application of mHealth is the management of doctor's outpatient appointments, patients can conveniently make appointments for doctors through their cell phones, while the cell phone will remind the patient to be on time for their appointments to improve the time management of doctors and patients.
7, electronic health records query
Through the mHealth platform, the patient can know the content of their own health records in the hospital, through the cell phone will be able to query part of the personal electronic medical records.
8, medication management
Mobile health care can also be applied to the patient's medication management, through the mobile health care platform to notify the patient about the time of medication, dosage and other information, so that the patient in accordance with the medical plan to go to the regular dosage of medication to ensure that the medical effect; but also can be collected from the patient's history of medication, to facilitate the follow-up diagnosis and treatment.
9, chronic disease management
For the elderly, mHealth can help them manage chronic diseases, such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and diabetes, so that patients can receive some medical services at home.
10, disaster management
When there is an epidemic, earthquake and other natural disasters, mHealth can collect data in a wide range of timely manner, which can help early detection of the disaster response, and help the government to make the appropriate and reasonable measures.
Three, the limitations of mHealth
The limitations of mHealth are mainly reflected in two aspects: one is the limited display of information, and the other is limited by the network, and the connection speed is not very stable, which are the main factors of the constraints of mHealth. Mobile health is just a simple medical communication platform for patients. Traditional healthcare is a better choice when dealing with detailed or lengthy information that requires a lot of data entry.