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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298550503321

Autore

Malvey Donna

Titolo

mHealth [[electronic resource] ] : Transforming Healthcare / / by Donna Malvey, Donna J. Slovensky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

1-4899-7457-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

330

36.210.681

502.85

610.285

Soggetti

Health care management

Health services administration

Health informatics

Health Care Management

Health Informatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Overview -- Telemedicine and Tele health: Where Does mHealth Fit? -- mHealth Regulation, Legislation and Cyber security -- mHealth Products, Markets and Trends -- mHealth Stakeholders - Follow the Money -- Putting mHealth in Public Health -- Mobile Means Global -- Research Evidence and Other Information Sources -- The Possible Future of mHealth: Likely Trends and Speculation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book defines the phenomenon of mHealth and its evolution, explaining why an understanding of mHealth is critical for decision makers, entrepreneurs, and policy analysts who are pivotal to developing products that meet the collaborative health information needs of consumers and providers in a competitive and rapidly-changing environment. The book examines trends in mHealth and discusses how mHealth technologies offer opportunities for innovators and entrepreneurs, those who often are industry first-movers with regard to technology advancement. It also explores the changing



dynamics and relationships among physicians, patients, insurers, regulators, managers, administrators, caregivers, and others involved in the delivery of health services. The primary focus is on the ways in which mHealth technologies are revising and reshaping healthcare delivery systems in the United States and globally, and how those changes are expected to change the ways in which the business of healthcare is conducted. mHealth: Transforming Healthcare consists of nine chapters that addresses key content areas, including history (to the extent that dynamic technologies have a history), projection of immediate evolution, and consistent issues associated with health technology, such as security and information privacy, and government and industry regulation. A major point of discussion addressed is whether mHealth is a transient group of products and a passing patient encounter approach, or if it is the way much of our health care will be delivered in future years with incremental evolution to achieve sustainable innovation of health technologies.