Full Description
The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine: Leveraging Innovation, Seizing Opportunities, and Overcoming Obstacles of mHealth addresses the rapid advances taking place in mHealth and their impact on clinicians and patients. It provides guidance on reliable mobile health apps that are based on sound scientific evidence, while also offering advice on how to stay clear of junk science. The book explores the latest developments, including the value of blockchain, the emerging growth of remote sensors in chronic patient care, the potential use of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant as patient bedside assistants, the use of Amazon's IoT button, and much more.
This book enables physicians and nurses to gain a deep understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of mobile health and helps them choose evidence-based mobile medicine tools to improve patient care.
Contents
1. Innovations in mHealth Part 12. Innovations in mHealth, Part 23. Exploring the Strengths and Weaknesses of Mobile Apps4. Mobile Apps Critique: Heart disease and hypertension5. Mobile Apps Critique: Diabetes and asthma6. Mobile Apps Critique: Mental health/Depression7. Reinventing clinical decision support: Is there a role for mobile technology?8. Telemedicine: Opportunities and Challenges9. Patient Engagement must be our Top Priority10. Security and privacy concerns11. Designing the ideal mobile medical app
