Mobile Care: Converging Mobile and Healthcare
Imagine you are at a remote place for a tour, and you have a seizure of epilepsy. Or, let us say there is an emergency need for a doctor. Or, you need reminders of medicines you take. What could be the best possible way to find a solution to this? Kindly read on.
When healthcare services are delivered through mobile, there are many applications in the mobile that come into the picture. Many stakeholders have a distinct use of this mobile. Let us explore this at a different angle.
For Patients
- The patients can input a time-table for the medicines in the mobile applications that remind him/her of the time for the dose
- Readings for Blood Pressure, Sugar Levels or any other parameters can be an input
- SMS or MMS can be designed to allow access to a doctor in phone
- Use of certain inputs will lead to a doctor for mobile doctor
- Request for medicine can be made from a doctor
For Remote Patients
- Emergency call from remote areas in a village will lead to a doctor’s mobile care
- Consultation can be done through mobile care at nominal cost
- Weekly calls through video chat for telemedicine and mobile care
Doctors
- Electronic Prescription can be used to send to the patients
- Digital format of historical analysis of health index can be accessed easily
- Analysis of medical transcription and analysis can be done
- Mobile Care can help to access the medicines used per day or readings of BP, Sugar etc. to make a away-from-patient analysis
- Early diagnosis through Mobile Care
Third parties
- Refill requirement of medicines via SMS, MMS
- Verification of medical transcripts
- Verification of e-records
- Medical insurance claims processing
- Displaying and analysis of e-transcriptions
Call Centers working on data mapping
- Directing level of emergencies to available doctors at the time of emergency
- Efficient way of using telemedicine by spanning the bandwidth
- Reducing time for emergency calls by proper usage of call handling
Medical Students
- E-dictionary for medical terms
- Electronic records of previous case history
- Cases to study for on-going patients
And hence, we see that the healthcare industry can pivot its needs on the mobile application technology to make Mobile Care truly successful.