Look at the status of mobile medical applications, think about mobile medical technology

First, we are familiar with a noun: mobile medicine. What is mobile medicine? In terms of form and function, it is through, for example, smartphones, mobile products such as tablets, wireless implantable devices, wearable medical devices, and medical or health information (e.g., blood sugar, blood pressure, pulse, weight, body temperature) and services (e.g., remote patient monitoring, videoconferencing, personal care devices, electronic cases).

With the development of mobile health care technology in recent years, domestic and foreign medical equipment, service and application companies in the environment of more powerful policies of their respective governments, there is an unprecedented demand for information interaction in all aspects of the service chain. One of the strategies of Obamacare is to unite the advanced technology companies in the United States to promote industrial restructuring and, in the long run, to reduce the cost of health care for the American people, and the Chinese Health Ministry on August 17, 2013 issued the "Healthy China 2020 Strategic Research Report", which will "promote science and technology Innovation program, The National Health Information System Action plan, the development of a health industry action plan, is identified as a priority area for work.

The enterprise has two points to pay attention to the dynamic: one, the participants to information integration and sharing the demand for more vigorous, both, targeted specific medical technology and services at the same time received more attention and input.

To achieve these two points, both the hardware route, can not be lack of software. As for the latter, what is the status of mobile medical applications?

Rockhealth's Deepika Potarazu published a research paper: The research team examined 13,000 health and fitness applications in the App Store, and found that 19% of smartphone users downloaded the app, and interestingly, It is believed that the use of this software to monitor their health status can prolong life of 35% of the total user. But note that 42% of doctors disapprove of their patients ' use of health and fitness applications because they are afraid they are addicted. Approved doctors accounted for One-fourth of the total.

Let's talk about the future. Fiercemobilehealthcare's Ashley Gold recently proposed 3 mobile technologies that are likely to dominate mobile medical blocks, which are interesting to watch:

Location-based services: From the simplest "find a way in the courtyard", to more complex patient flow management (marginalised flows Management), GPS and other types of positioning techniques all play the value of immediate monitoring--at any point in time, hospital personnel are aware of where the patient is, This avoids repeating checks or sending someone to the wrong department. Immediate monitoring is equivalent to considerable economic value, how to say? For example, South Carolina's Beaufort Memorial Hospital tried 6 weeks of patient flow management software to optimize the arrangement of hospitalization time, resulting in a significant reduction in the average length of hospital stay, resulting in a rise in the turnover rate of the bed, which saved hospital costs.

Mobile medical equipment: such as infusion pump, excess detection device, such as the volume of medical equipment is getting smaller and more and more wireless. This will dramatically change the pattern of medical service venues: As these devices continue to improve and strengthen, you don't need to go to the hospital long queues, the doctor directly with the equipment to your home on the line. In addition, in the age of a smartphone, patients can view their real-time physiological index in any place: blood pressure, blood sugar, pulse, and so on, and transmit the data instantaneously to the provider of nursing service, the basic physical examination is not necessary in the hospital.

The patient portal is striding forward: The patient portal has been widely used, but its mobility is still very low-the agency that does this is "a great blessing". The more access points the portal has, the greater the number of patients enjoying the technology. Ensure access to the number of patients can continue to provide services to all aspects of the needs, such as: Mobile health records management, medical professional information, management, and so on.

There are many possibilities for the combination of mobile technology and medical industry. There is a voice: to make it possible to become reality, you need the right mobile technology + the business model.

What is the right technology? I have no conclusion on this point, but I would like to draw a discussion.