Mobile Technology and Healthcare: Advancements and Implications

This report explores the impact of mobile technology on human health and the digitization of healthcare, drawing on research from various sources. It highlights advancements like smartphone-connected health devices, such as the iECG, and their potential to improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs. The report also includes a phenomenological study examining Chinese consumers' perceptions of fitness apps, revealing both empowering and constraining aspects of these technologies. The findings suggest that mobile technology offers valuable insights for healthcare practitioners, developers, and consumers, but also raises questions about the widespread utilization of such devices. The research emphasizes the importance of tailoring mobile health applications to specific cultural contexts and understanding the implications for both individual users and the broader healthcare landscape. This report provides supporting evidence regarding the digitization of healthcare and its implications.

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Bhavnani, S. P., Narula, J., & Sengupta, P. P. (2016). Mobile technology and the digitization of
healthcare.
European heart journal,
37(18), 1428-1438.
This particular research has been aimed at the technology of mobile and the healthcare digitization of,
particularly healthcare. This paper has followed a qualitative approach in which the data has been
collected from all the various online journals, books as well as articles related to that of the mobile
technology and the digitization of healthcare. Several advancements which are technological and
several mobile health devices that are smartphone-connected like the iECG have been seen to be
leading to the incrementing enthusiasm for the care of the patient with several promises for decreasing
the costs of healthcare and also for improving all the outcomes as well. The particular journal has
been able to convey that the particular convergence of both the technology and science in the dynamic
era, particularly the digital one, has finally resulted in the development of several digital devices of
health which are very much innovative. M-Health has been currently seen to be intersected with that
of the real world and has been offering several essential insights into particularly how all the several
practitioners, as well as the patients, are using some digital technologies of health. However, it has
also been observed that it is also raising many important questions related to the evidence supporting
the broadly spread utilization of the device. It can be concluded that this specific research has
provided a number of supporting evidences regarding the digitization of healthcare.
Baulch, E., Watkins, J., & Tariq, A. (2018). Smart Health Facilitator: Chinese Consumers’
Perceptions and Interpretations of Fitness Mobile Apps--mHealth Innovation in Asia:
Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions.
This particular chapter is a phenomenological study that has been seen to be conducted for
particularly exploring how all the several Chinese consumers have perceived some of the apps of
fitness in all of their daily lives. It has been known that some interviews have been utilized for
collecting the data. Even some of the findings have well said that all the meanings of the applications
of mobile of particularly fitness are multi-layered and also multidimensional. The study has been able
to show that upon the particular positive side, the mobile apps for fitness have embodied both
empowerments as well as the individualism which is networked and this will be assisting all the
several consumers of China for directly obtaining all of their respective goals of fitness. It will also be

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helping a lot in improving the quality of all of their different lives. On the other hand, this particular
chapter has been able to show that mainly on the negative side, all the several mobile apps for fitness
possess an effect which is constraining. It has also been known that some of the participants have also
connected the utilization of the app of fitness to all of their individual feelings of great loneliness.
There are also many implications, mainly the practical ones, which have been offered for all the
several organizations of the app of mobile fitness. The study has not only extended the scholarship but
also held many several essential implications for the development of the fitness app and also for the
management of healthcare. The qualitative approach will be affording all the developers of fitness
apps with much useful insights required for tailoring all of their products for all the Chinese
consumers. Hence, in this way, this particular article can show how mobile technology can be
improving human health.

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References
Bhavnani, S. P., Narula, J., & Sengupta, P. P. (2016). Mobile technology and the digitization of
healthcare. European heart journal, 37(18), 1428-1438.
Baulch, E., Watkins, J., & Tariq, A. (2018). Smart Health Facilitator: Chinese Consumers’
Perceptions and Interpretations of Fitness Mobile Apps--mHealth Innovation in Asia:
Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions.