KEY INSIGHTS mHEALTH IS HERE AROUND THE CORNER .
KEY INSIGHTS mHEALTH IS HERE AROUND THE CORNER .
• Most physicians use a mobile device in their daily lives , but are holding back to integrate these devices into their practice . They are weighing the cost in workflow disruption , time taken away from patient facetime , and learning curve against the benefits .
• Most healthcare mobile apps are not robust enough for mHealth daily use — they neither track nor collect useful health data . But new apps are on the way , including Apple ’ s healthkit that will integrate patient data with EHR data .
• The potential to use smartphones and tablets to provide remote healthcare in rural or third-world environments is enormous . Teleradiology is coming into its own in these environments and bringing specialists together with patients . Recent study affirms successful use of smartphone photos of films to diagnose X-rays .
• Future will bring more robust apps , better patient tracking data for a larger assortment of conditions , better integration with EHR and CDS .
• Big data ? As more patients adopt wearable fitness devices reporting 24 / 7 changes in health data , the potential for analysis is mind-boggling .