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Mobile Health (mHealth) Mobile Health - "In addition to being the most common way to communicate health data, mHealth technology is also the most promising way to engage patients in their healthcare

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Mobile Health - "In addition to being the most common way to communicate health data, mHealth technology is also the most promising way to engage patients in their healthcare.  mHealth is defined as the generation, aggregation, and dissemination of health information via mobile and wireless devices (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, 2014, p. 1).

According to one report from the Big Innovation Center looking at the Global eHealth Industry - Landscape Overview 2020 (Links to an external site.) - mHealth is broken up into several groupings - Industry Distribution, Geographic Distribution, Rankings, and Trends.  One image that is startling is the one below - please go to the report directly to get a better view.

Do you know what each of these companies produces in terms of health products/services?  We all see Apple and Google apps - but what about those from these companies?

Prominent players in the mHealth apps market include; (Links to an external site.)

• Abbott Laboratories
• Johnson and Johnson
• F.Hoffmaa-La Roche Ltd.
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• Merck and Co. Inc.
• Sanofi
• Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
• Google Alphabet Inc.
• Airstrip Technologies Inc.
• Apple Inc.
• Astrazeneca plc
• Novartis AG
• GlaxoSmithKline plc
• Pfizer Inc.
• Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Orange
• Allscripts
• AT&T

 

Read

• Global mHealth Industry Landscape Overview 2020 (Links to an external site.)
• Casselman, Onopa & Khansa (2017).  Wearable healthcare: Lessons from the past and a peek into the future (Links to an external site.)
• Zhang, Juo, Nie and Zhang, Y. (2017).  Technical attributes, health attributes, consumer attributes, and their roles in adoption intention of healthcare wearable technology. (Links to an external site.)

 Assignment - Due March 5th  Please list your choice on the db as soon as possible - only 1 person to each choice.

 

As you complete the paper please post to this site....

Research and choose a wearable or some other type of mHealth application (you will have to do a bit of research to make sure the application you chose lists enough information to answer the following questions). In your paper answer the following questions.

1. What app did you choose?  Who is the manufacturer? Are there specific investors backing the project?

2.  What type of computer technology/hardware/software is needed for the application user and the receiver of the data or information (i.e. are the results sent to a cloud?  a hard drive? or?).

3.  Explain what the device/app does and which realm does it fit into based on the Landscape Overview picture (above).

4.  Does insurance (including Medicare/Medicaid) pay for the use of the system?

5.  What results are generated by the system?  Are the results for personal use?  Are they sent to a doctor?

6.  What type of security is used with the device?  Sign on/password? or?  (Review the earlier module on security)

7.  What type of support is available for the system?

8.  Does it meet HIPPA requirements (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act Compliance)? 

9.  Using the Zhang article as a reference - what would you consider the technical, health, and consumer attributes of the user of the service you chose?

Rubric

• 75 points -- Accuracy of answers
• 25 points -- Writing quality and APA Style