The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine: Leveraging Innovation, Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles of mHealth

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.

Provides clinicians and technologists with an update on the latest mobile health initiatives and tools, including the work done at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical SchoolEncompasses case studies with real-world examples to turn abstract concepts into flesh and blood examples of how mHealth benefits the publicPresents drawings, graphics and flow charts to help readers visualize the functionality and value of mobile medicine

1. Innovations in mHealth Part 1 2. Innovations in mHealth, Part 2 3. Exploring the Strengths and Weaknesses of Mobile Apps 4. Mobile Apps Critique: Heart disease and hypertension 5. Mobile Apps Critique: Diabetes and asthma 6. Mobile Apps Critique: Mental health/Depression 7. Reinventing clinical decision support: Is there a role for mobile technology? 8. Telemedicine: Opportunities and Challenges 9. Patient Engagement must be our Top Priority 10. Security and privacy concerns 11. Designing the ideal mobile medical app