An
increasing number of developed and developing nations are relying on mobile
technology to fulfill health requirements. Thus, mHealth industry is highly
dynamic. Furthermore, the line of applications being developed shows its demand
is expanding. The major applications for the mobile health worldwide are remote
monitoring, creating awareness, education, remote data accumulation, training
and communication for healthcare officials, tracking epidemic and disease
outbreak and treatment assistance. As per a recent survey by Makovsky/Kelton
titled “Pulse of Online Health” close to 47 percent revealed that they would
use mHealth apps to not only to prevent but also manage diseases by keeping a
track of their dietary intake.
M-Health
Applications Becomes a Major Source of Education & Awareness Programs
Mobile
health applications have been highly popularized by teens residing in western
nations and developing countries like Japan. The demand for low – cost medium
of communicating with peers and friends and SMS, that acts as a scalable method
of offering outreach services has kept the future of the sector bright. Apart
from this, in awareness as well as education programs, SMSs can be delivered to
end-users’ phone informing them about different testing methods, disease
tracking and health services made available for the people.
Such
applications offer the benefit of being highly unobtrusive, providing the
end-users confidentiality in conditions where diseases are often considered a
taboo, e.g. HIV. Alerts by such applications prove effective especially in
targeting difficult – to-find rural areas, where lack of trained healthcare
professionals and absence of clinics is a big problem. Eight applications that
have revolutionized healthcare in developing nations are GiftedMom, Zero
Mothers Die, maymay, Safe Delivery, MAMA and Mobile Midwife among others.
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M-Health
Applications Strengthens Remote Data Accumulation
Data
accumulation is a crucial element, when it comes to public health initiatives.
Several health officials and policymaker are expected to offer relevant
information at the community, district as well as national level. This further
assists the government bodies to assess the effectiveness of the current
regulations and initiatives and to define the new ones. In many developing
nations accumulating field data is critical since different segments of people
rarely have an access to better medical facilities, even in case of severe
conditions. Collecting information where such patients dwell becomes important
and should be continuously updated. Moreover, such information should be made
available on a real – time basis. The information accumulation procedure is
highly efficient and dependable, when conducted through mobile phones,
smartphones and PDAs.
Eyeing
the major developments in the sector, Big Market Research has added a report
titled “M-Health
Applications - Global Market Outlook (2015-2022).” As per the study the
M-Health market is likely to generate about $103.23 bn by 2020. In addition,
the sector is expected to register a CAGR of 32.5 percent between 2015 to 2022.
Stakeholder looking for relevant information on the industry by trends, device,
services, application and geography would find the research valuable. Some of
the prominent vendors assessed during the study include Athenahealth, Inc.,
Biotelemetry, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., AirStrip Technologies, Inc. and
LifeWatch AG among others.
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