Transforming Healthcare with mHealth Solutions

Monday 12 November 2012, Amsterdam

A new primary research report finds that mobile technology is fundamentally changing the way healthcare services are both provided and consumed.  In an industry with no shortage of operational challenges, healthcare IT executives are increasingly looking to mHealth solutions to lower costs, improve patient care, and increase productivity.

The new report, entitled “Transforming Healthcare with mHealth Solutions: The Opportunities, Efficiencies, and ROI of Mobile Technology," chronicles the advancement of healthcare practices and profiles the enabling technologies being used to transform mobile healthcare IT.  

The study analyzes how mobile operating systems, device form factors and applications converge to create innovative mHealth solutions.  Healthcare professionals in hospitals, practices, pharmacies, insurers and home healthcare settings are renovating their work processes based on accessibility to real-time medical and patient data.     

The technology that enables mHealth is profiled in terms of its benefits to the healthcare industry.  Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) vendors are described by platform support, development approach, security offerings and off-the-shelf mobile healthcare application portfolios.  An extensive examination of Mobile Device Management (MDM) technology addresses key concerns for healthcare IT managers – security and data vulnerability.  The study describes how MDM solutions are helping organizations to control large, heterogeneous devices populations that often include employee-owned devices.  No less relevant, the study focuses on the dynamics of mHealth regulations and corporate mobility policies in a new era of data vulnerability.  

According to the new report, “Healthcare providers, insurers, and government leaders are searching for ways to harness emerging mobile technology,  create new markets and forge deeper patient/provider relationships.  We believe mobility in healthcare has the potential to transform – indeed, has already begun to transform – the medical arena.”