gApps
  • Home
  • Directory
  • Articles
  • News
  • Resources
  • Services
  • Advertise
  • Search
  • Menu Menu
  • Link to X
  • Link to LinkedIn

10 Things your boss should know about mHealth

mHealth is the step forward that gives the patient a better opportunity to access healthcare at their fingertips. It gives the ability to monitor, educate and facilitate management of medical conditions from home and through devices that we are all familiar with using. Going to see an actual doctor is often inconvenient and is something that an employee might not want to have to explain or to ask for time off for. Far better that patients take responsibility for some of the management of a medical condition themselves with a back-up of medical care.

So here are ten things that your boss needs to know about mHealth and why it is unquestionably the way ahead.

  1. mHealth, while commonly used as an interactive app, in its broadest application, can attach to a pocket, to a wrist, to clothing, to underwear or directly onto the skin to monitor health.
  2. mHealth can offer a future where there is individual self-determination providing a positive impact on the user’s individual health and the health of the public at large.
  3. mHealth can offer a future that will motivate employers, policymakers, and other professionals to create guidelines and situations that both support and promote healthy behaviour.
  4. mHealth will allow for a freer flow of information, within and outside any health care system.
  5. mHealth will contribute to a future that encourages health care providers to put real value on patients and on their data.
  6. mHealth will create a future that builds respect and trust between patients and their health care providers as well as competence in technology-supported self-and shared management of all aspects of health care.
  7. mHealth will make use of social media for greater and more effective communication.
  8. mHealth will allow for the combination of supporting health and delivering health care information for individuals and for the wider community. That information will be accessed from diverse sources, and can also include non-clinical information.
  9. mHealth will promote technology that can map and show trends in health status, and will highlight any deviations from the norm for any given person in any given scenario.
  10. mHealth will promote user friendly technologies that assimilate health activities and treatment into the rest of a patient’s life.

Finally in February 10, 2014, the Apple iStore contained almost 30,000 health & fitness apps, and over 23,000 medical apps. Many are free, some cost a few pence and others cost a substantial amount. They perform many different functions, but there is one thing all mHealth apps have in common: they all collect information about us and impart vital information to us as users and to medical professionals as they assess health and monitor treatment.

There is no doubt that mHealth solutions are already part of the future for our health and well-being but there are still many organisations involved int he healthcare sector that have yet to develop an effective mHealth strategy to help them capitalise on the opportunities that this exciting area of digital can offer .

What is mHealth?

What do we mean when we use the term mHealth and what is a ‘mHealth app’?

Many of you will have started to hear the term mHealth being used more frequently, the EU even recently published a Green Paper on mHealth, but as with most jargon unless you are directly involved in the sector responsible for dreaming up these new buzzwords, chances are could find yourself sat in a meeting thinking what on earth is that person talking about when you hear the phrase:

“You need to develop an integrated mHealth strategy and build a suite of native mHealth apps for both iOS and Android platforms”

Here is the Wikipedia definition:

mHealth (also written as m-health) is an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices. The term is most commonly used in reference to using mobile communication devices, such as mobile phones, tablet computers and PDAs, for health services and information, but also to affect emotional states. The mHealth field has emerged as a sub-segment of eHealth, the use of information and communication technology (ICT), such as computers, mobile phones, communications satellite, patient monitors, etc., for health services and information. mHealth applications include the use of mobile devices in collecting community and clinical health data, delivery of healthcare information to practitioners, researchers, and patients, real-time monitoring of patient vital signs, and direct provision of care (via mobile telemedicine).

In the EU Green Paper they define mHealth as:

Mobile health (mHealth) covers “medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other devise. It also includes applications (apps) such as lifestyle and wellbeing apps that may connect to medical devices or sensors (e.g. bracelets or watches) as well as personal guidance systems, health information and medication reminders provided by SMS and telemedicine provided wirelessly.

Useful mHealth/health app resources

Apart from our own resources collating mHealth statistics, events and news stories, there are some great blogs and websites that cover the topics of mHealth.

Here are our top five:

  1. iMedical apps – http://www.imedicalapps.com/
  2. mHealth professional – http://paper.li/mhealthpro
  3. Mobile Health News – http://mobihealthnews.com/
  4. mHealth Alliance – http://mhealthalliance.org/media-a-resources
  5. mHealth News – http://www.mhealthnews.com/

You can also search for and read tweets that have been posted to the following hashtags: #mHealth; #healthcareapps; #HCApps

Featured Articles

  • EU MDR postponed to May 2021
    Medical Device Regulation (MDR) is postponed until 2021July 15, 2020 - 1:23 pm
  • Avoiding app store rejection – the importance of using a medical app development specialistMay 5, 2020 - 4:48 pm
  • Tips for designing a medical device
    Tips for designing a medical app – is connectivity on your list?August 2, 2016 - 11:20 am

App Developer Directory

Search or Get Listed
App developer directory

About

gApps is the UK’s leading resource for all things relating to health and medical app development.
About us

Contact us

Write for us

Directory Listing

Featured Article

  • EU MDR postponed to May 2021
    Medical Device Regulation (MDR) is postponed until 2021July 15, 2020 - 1:23 pm

Advertise

Learn more about advertising opportunities and getting listed in our app developers directory

Newsletter Sign-Up

© DGR Enterprises Ltd 2025 | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy | Legal
  • Link to X
  • Link to LinkedIn
Scroll to top Scroll to top Scroll to top

This website or its third-party tools process personal data (e.g. browsing data or IP addresses) and use cookies or other identifiers, which are necessary for its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use of cookies.

Close

Cookie and Privacy Settings



How we use cookies

We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.

Click on the different category headings to find out more. You can also change some of your preferences. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer.

Essential Website Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.

Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site.

We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain.

We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. You can check these in your browser security settings.

Google Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience.

If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here:

Other external services

We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page.

Google Webfont Settings:

Google Map Settings:

Google reCaptcha Settings:

Vimeo and Youtube video embeds:

Other cookies

The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them:

Privacy Policy

You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page.

Privacy Policy
Accept AllDecline AllUse Only Selected
Open Message Bar Open Message Bar Open Message Bar