It becomes evident that mobile technologies together with mobile applications turned into a part of every aspect of everyday life. And healthcare is not an exception.
Experts believe that Android mobile applications for health, so as the apps for iPhone can really change the way that healthcare is practiced and make it easier for both parties – the provider and the patient.
In case if user wants to know the heart rate he can use the cardio application. It scans the face and tracks the changes in reflected light every time the heart beats. The creators say that the application is accurate within 3 beats per minute of a clinical pulse oximeter.
There is also an application that tracks how well you sleep – Sleep Cycle. If user places a phone on the bed the application measures the movements and it also can be set to wake the user up in his lightest sleep state.
Lots of people use mobile applications that help lose weight by tracking calories or those that measures blood pressure. There is even one for nursing students.
Even some doctors use mobile applications. There is one – MDconnectME – that allows surgeons to give family updates during the surgery.
The Chief Medical Information Officer at Penn Dr. Bill Hanson is an author of two books detailing how new technologies are changing the sphere of medicine. He is sure that the business of health applications is booming. In a symposium at Penn doctors discussed how the mobile tools can change healthcare. Besides tracking user’s own health habits doctors can also prescribe some mobile applications to manage care at home such as Diabetes Manager.
But there exists a problem of data privacy. It is important to collect patient’s personal information so that the application could provide user with the most convenient recommendations. But on the other hand user must be sure that the application is secure and that the data is not going to be stolen. But even if the technology still evolves there is no doubt that the tools will help provide better care at a better price.
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In case if user wants to know the heart rate he can use the cardio application. It scans the face and tracks the changes in reflected light every time the heart beats. The creators say that the application is accurate within 3 beats per minute of a clinical pulse oximeter.
There is also an application that tracks how well you sleep – Sleep Cycle. If user places a phone on the bed the application measures the movements and it also can be set to wake the user up in his lightest sleep state.
Lots of people use mobile applications that help lose weight by tracking calories or those that measures blood pressure. There is even one for nursing students.
Even some doctors use mobile applications. There is one – MDconnectME – that allows surgeons to give family updates during the surgery.
The Chief Medical Information Officer at Penn Dr. Bill Hanson is an author of two books detailing how new technologies are changing the sphere of medicine. He is sure that the business of health applications is booming. In a symposium at Penn doctors discussed how the mobile tools can change healthcare. Besides tracking user’s own health habits doctors can also prescribe some mobile applications to manage care at home such as Diabetes Manager.
But there exists a problem of data privacy. It is important to collect patient’s personal information so that the application could provide user with the most convenient recommendations. But on the other hand user must be sure that the application is secure and that the data is not going to be stolen. But even if the technology still evolves there is no doubt that the tools will help provide better care at a better price.
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