Recently, a third-party organization released the China Mobile Consultation White Paper (2017). This whitepaper says that the emergence of the mobile Internet has provided a high-quality technical soil for the optimization of the medical industry chain, and that mobile healthcare is developing rapidly in the context of the national healthcare reform. In the view of many industry insiders, mobile healthcare can make up for the lack of uneven distribution of medical resources, which is conducive to solving the difficulty and high cost of medical treatment. However, medical care itself is a high-risk and non-trial-and-error industry, its integration with remote technology, whether new problems will arise?
The so-called "mHealth" is commonly defined in the industry as the provision of medical services and information through the use of mobile communication technologies, such as PDAs, cell phones and satellite communications. system-based medical and healthcare app applications.
Mobile healthcare has changed the traditional way in which people could only travel to hospitals to see a doctor. Whether at home or on the road, people are able to listen to the doctor's advice or get all kinds of health-related information at any time. Mobile health is becoming a hot topic for the entire mobile communications industry.
Despite the fact that mHealth is making great strides, it is still facing a number of difficulties and risks.
The first is the existence of patients and physicians across the platform for private contact, for example, the first time through the platform to find a doctor for hyaluronic acid injection, feel the effect is not bad, then the next time the patient is likely to directly find the doctor for treatment. This saves the platform's intermediary fee, but in fact the patient is less of a guarantee, belonging to the risky behavior.
Secondly, mHealth has been "abused" and "misused," with some inapplicable conditions being forcefully transplanted.
In this regard, Mr. Huang cited an example: many patients with throat problems send their examination reports and high-resolution photos to the platform in the hope of getting an expert diagnosis. But vocal cord problems are often very complex, and many times it takes a doctor to see the actual movement of the patient's vocal cords in order to make an accurate judgment. Simply "taking a picture and asking the doctor" brings a great risk of misdiagnosis to the doctor, and the doctor is often in a difficult position to make a big deal out of the disease, or to make a small deal out of the disease, which will be regarded as a misdiagnosis.
Once again, there is the issue of leakage of patient information. "Now there is also a 'black market' in the medical industry, especially mobile health, there are many people who specialize in selling customer information, and there are also hackers who focus on attacking hospital networks to steal information." Mr. Huang said.