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In what ways have mobile devices reshaped the healthcare industry?
These mobile devices play a crucial role in healthcare. Today, they have the power to reshape patient care and organizational activities. Remote patient monitoring is one of the areas where mHealth initiatives practice (West, 2012).
Physicians can use sensors to monitor the vital signs of recently discharged patients, especially those with chronic diseases. Helping in the early detection of any complications, reducing the risk and further hospitalization.
The devices can also help patients self-monitor and manage their disease. Or to remind them to take their prescribed medications on time. Helping put patients more in control of their health and improving outcomes.
What finding, from the report, was most significant, in your opinion? Why do you feel this way?
One of the outcomes that impressed me the most was the implementation of electronic health records in China. They make it achievable by integrating vast amounts of patient data from different sources, enabling rapid intervention even in the most remote rural areas. Electronic health records, monitoring devices, medical imaging, and other sources facilitate a deeper understanding of patients and their diseases.
How is technology influencing health care in your region?
In the United States, mHealth tablets allow doctors to interview patients remotely, make remote diagnoses, and access medical records securely at any time. This support continued prophylaxis during COVID-19 without the need to visit a doctor. Friends and family have told me entire health system was in chaos in Italy. I appreciated the organization of the distribution of vaccines in the United States; the army has organized the distribution points with a slight possibility of contagion. We booked online, and they made the appointment with reminded by text when we had to go. Everything was perfect, organized, and thought out. On the other hand, in my country, Italy, it was a disaster at the beginning, perhaps because there was a lack of supplies, but I also believe a lack of planning.
My country prides itself on having a free public health system and severely criticizes the US system for not having a welfare system. Still, it inherently fails to deal with this emergency. It is clear that the United States, being a power and having the possibility of printing money, has been
able to deal with the pandemic more promptly. However, I believe that the application of technology can realize huge savings at many points in the healthcare chain.
What type of technology would greatly assist the healthcare in your neighborhood?
With traditional healthcare delivery, patients with mobility problems must go to the doctor's office or hospital, or healthcare professionals must travel to see the patient. I witnessed my bedridden mom and her family doctor not visit her all the time she needed. Providing mobile medical devices that don't require anyone to move is highly efficient. However, the uptake, adoption, and use of mHealth mobile services are still not widespread, especially among seniors or poorer.
I believe that the combination of a domiciliary system and self-monitoring of health and lifestyle could contribute to older patients as benefits who would feel the closeness of people who care for
them and who are at the same time kept under control and no longer have the capacity independently take medicines or medications.
My health insurance reported an app to talk to my family doctor, and I tried it during the coronavirus, but I feel a little problematic because of the language and because I'm a habit of contacting the doctor in person; I think it's a question socio-cultural, even if I am a person technological.
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References:
West, D. (2012). How mobile devices are transforming healthcare.
Issues in Technology Innovation, 18
. Brookings Institute. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/22-
mobile-health-west.pdf
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