Digital Healthcare: Mobile Apps, EHRs, Telemedicine

Week 11 Module 6
Digital Healthcare

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
Mobile Health Applications ............................................................................................................3
Electronic health Records ...............................................................................................................4
Telemedicine ...................................................................................................................................5
Technology used by patients, consumers and health professions ...................................................5
Age group and target audience........................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................7
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REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
There are various benefits of technology in medical and healthcare of patients. As it helps in
making people aware about chronic disease and on time it can take consultation from doctor. It
provides with diagnosis report of patients and by they they can identify disease and get medicine to
cure disease. Digital technology helps in recording of patients data in order to make it more easier
for doctor to give right treatment. There area various tools of medical and healthcare technology
which provides safety to patients. It helps in providing medication and flags reminders for consult
and diagnosis reports. Healthcare alerts helps patients to get specific treatment. Electronic data
leads to uniformity of practice across health practitioners. This presentation will cover three digital
technology of healthcare along with challenges and benefits. In addition to that it will cover how
digital technology helps patients in improving health and cure chronic disease. At last, it will cover
for what age group this technology is made for.
MAIN BODY
The role of technology in healthcare is unforgettable and it provides tons of benefits when it
come to healthcare. It has reshaped at how individual looks at patient care, making more effective
hospital management and discovering better drugs by conducting research. It makes research
process much easier as data can be collected from online source and based on interpretation,
facilitates benefit of new discovery. Its importance in healthcare is deeply rooted and and provides
quick care management in case of any casualties and emergency. Following are some technology
that are widely used in healthcare industry.
Mobile Health Applications
This technology is widely used in healthcare industry as it provides with real time status of
individual health. They are built in smartphone applications with sensors that helps in monitoring
real time health related behaviour. There are various healthcare application which can be used to
detect health related issue by monitoring and analysing heartbeat, blood pressure rate and oxygen
level too. There are various wearable devices which can be connected to smartphones and can be
synchronised in order to get real time data. This technology is commonly used across the world and
is quiet affordable too. Mobile health apps helps in self monitoring psychological markers in order
to encourage for physical activities and healthy diets.
Benefits of health care mobile applications
 Improves Patient engagement – In today's patient centric environment, quality control is
becoming more popular than ever. Mobile health care applications helps in engagement by