West, D. (2012). How mobile devices are transforming healthcare. Issues in Technology Innovation, 18, 1-14.
Good article from "Issues in Technology Innovation, Number 18". The article makes compelling case with data and interviews that mobile devices are improving healthcare tremendously especially for the poor and those in rural areas. It does say the concern is patient privacy and security, again pointing out the benefits are great if security issues can be mitigated especially on BYOD. Some parts of the article:
- Global mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold between 2011 and 2016
- Mobile emergence has improved service delivery, empowered consumers, businesses and entrepreneurs
- Mobile technology is poised to alter how health care is delivered
- Mobile health care or mHealth or m-Health
- Mobile devices are saving money in health care
- Mobile devices in health care are providing
- Appointment minders
- Telemedicine
- Access to patient records
- measuring treatment compliance
- Raising health awareness
- Monitoring patients
- Supporting physicians in decision making
- mHealth obstacles
- Competing priorities
- Budgetary restrictions
- Staff shortages
- Privacy concerns
- Data security
- Regulatory requirements
- Patients can be monitored in real time
- This is estimated to save $197 billion over 25 years
- 3G and 4G wireless can be used to reach rural communities
- Data shows that
- Physicians with access to mobile devices respond more promptly to medical test results
- There were few errors in medication prescription and hospital discharging
- Doctors showed improved data management and record keeping practices
- Mobile devices can be use to "text" ER to designated number and get the anticipated wait time
- 12,000 medical apps available for Apple devices
- 40,000 medical apps available across devices
- mHealth revenues projected to reach $23 billion by 2017
- Productivity gains estimated to reach $305 billion by 2022
- Patient and doctor number one concerns are security of data, privacy of data
- Especially true on BYOD
- Doctors and nurses prefer BYOD
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