Healthcare in Mobility

There was a time, when getting treatment for even the most common diseases was an uphill task. Whereas today, thanks to technology even the most fatal of health issues can be addressed conveniently. More so, with the value change brought by healthcare oriented mobile apps, which made the communication between doctors and patients much simpler and hassle free.

Trisha Torrey, founder and director of Alliance of Professional Health Advocates, says “The words that comes to my mind to define the past heath care experiences are ‘tightly controlled’ and ‘paternalistic.’ “Because of patient shifts, policy adjustments, technological advances, and easy accessibility to treatment, over the last decade, healthcare industry has moved towards a more patient centric approach, that prioritizes prevention and offers easy care. “Heath is driven by health care, but it also is driven as much by everything that is not health care – all the social factors, economic factors and demographics,” says Maulik Joshi, senior vice president and CEO of the American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust.

The hospitals of yesterday were quite different from the sprawling healthcare initiatives that are common in USA today. The hospital industry continues to evolve, streamline, and improve patient care, by integrating big data that has ultimately moved the entire industry from a fee-for-service to a fee- for-outcome model.

The role of mobile applications

From the availability of mobile apps for daily calorie monitoring to complete medical records on the mobile phone, there has been a drastic change in the way mobile has taken up the healthcare world. In fact, apart from nutrition based apps, you can also find interesting options on ways to check your heartbeat, monitor blood sugar levels, or get relevant blood donor. Thus the mobile dominant healthcare industry is informed, digital, and more active now. This latest trend set by mobile applications are transforming healthcare, increasing efficiency, lowering treatment costs, and improving outcomes. It aims at bringing treatment and care to the easy access of one and all. The applications assist these professionals with important tasks, such as: information and time management, health record maintenance and access, communications and consulting, reference and information gathering, patient monitoring, online health education. Most importantly, it is seen that these benefits have a very positive effect on patient care outcomes.

Top healthcare applications like Medscape, Epocrates, DocsInk and Micromedex, has already won trust of many within the healthcare chain, because of its significant and market standard features, and unprecedented communication platform. These applications have brought productive efficiency not only to the industry, but have also stated the fact as true that ‘care is omnipresent.’

Fact is mobile applications are set to further facilitate patient care and therefore positively impact the healthcare industry.  So now is the time to bring your wellness structure on easy accessible screens to connect with the key ingredients of your service i.e. doctors and patients and make them believe that you care.