What are the benefits of mobile health?

  With the launch of APPLEWATCH, wearable mobile terminals have entered people’s view again. And in the medical field, mHealth is also flourishing without people noticing.  Mobile medical international health care membership organization HIMSS defines it as: the provision of medical services and information through the use of mobile communication technologies – such as PDAs, cell phones and satellite communications, specifically in the field of mobile Internet, it is mainly based on Android and iOS and other mobile terminal systems of medical health App applications.  Mobile application solutions currently used in the healthcare industry include wireless room checks, mobile nursing, medication management and distribution, bar-coded patient identification band applications, wireless voice, network calls, video conferencing and video surveillance. It can be said that all the processes that a patient goes through in a hospital, from inpatient registration, medication issuance, infusion, fluid/dispensing center, specimen collection and processing, emergency room/operating room, to discharge checkout, can be optimized with mobile technology.  In addition, there are many other features of mobile health care: 1. Mobile health care has changed 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 get various health-related information at any time. Medical services, because of the addition of mobile communication technology, will not only save a lot of time and costs previously spent on registration, waiting in line and even travel by transportation, but will also more efficiently guide people to develop good living habits and change the treatment of disease to prevention of disease.  2, for the public hospital reform “to add fire” Since October 2010, the Ministry of Health decided to start nearly 100 hospitals and some regions of the pilot electronic medical records work. The leaders of the Ministry of Health said on public occasions that the establishment and improvement of the hospital information system with electronic medical records as the core is one of the important tasks of the pilot work of public hospital reform.  3, give full play to the advantages of various mobile terminals China report network mobile medical industry analysts pointed out that by 2016 there will be 30 million mobile devices and wireless networks in the “medical LAN” connected, can be worn on people’s wireless medical sensors will reach 100 million units.  In addition, mobile health has a huge blue ocean market.  First of all, there is a huge increase in the number of sub-healthy people between the ages of 35 and 65, who are becoming a large number of chronic diseases, including overweight and obesity, dyslipidemia and fatty liver, and hypertension, which are on the rise, and the age of onset is getting younger and younger. The onset of disease is usually preceded by “physiological abnormalities”, and the measurement of subhealth indicators through mobile medical devices can detect chronic diseases early and facilitate treatment.  Secondly, the proportion of empty nesters is increasing due to aging. According to a study by ChinaReport.com, China is expected to enter a phase of accelerated aging from 2020 to 2050. The trend of empty nesting and the increase in the number of elderly living alone will increase the demand for wearable smart medical devices that can achieve remote real-time monitoring.  At present, mobile medical care has considerable limitations, such as the inability to keep up with the concept, the lack of network power, and the backwardness of hospital equipment, which limit the popularity and development of mobile medical care.  Moreover, the development of mobile health care in foreign countries is based on a private doctor, a simple phone call, a simple email can solve common diseases other than surgery. China’s patient base is very large and is still in a period of difficulty in accessing medical care. Domestic doctors simply can’t waste their daily work on answering phone calls and sending and receiving emails, not to mention those medical seniors who need to learn computers from scratch.  In addition, the mobile model in foreign countries is based on one-to-one doctors, and patients are able to queue up for appointments in a fairly orderly manner. Of course, our doctors are also one-to-one mode of treatment, but the premise is that a patient only has just a few minutes of consultation time.  However, no matter how difficult it is, mobile medicine is a new trend in medical development that we should look forward to.