Mobile Health Monitoring App: Innovation, Benefits, and Challenges

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of mobile health monitoring applications, exploring their evolution, technological innovations, and impact on healthcare delivery. It examines the benefits of mHealth, such as improved patient-doctor communication and real-time data access, while also addressing the challenges related to cost, standardization, and contextual issues. The report delves into the stakeholders involved, including hospital staff, patients, and doctors, and analyzes factors affecting innovation, such as funding, team expertise, and employee motivation. It also presents a SWOT analysis, recommendations for improvement, and a discussion on the future of mobile health monitoring, emphasizing the potential for advancements like AI integration, blockchain technology, and the Internet of Medical Things. The report highlights the increasing importance of mHealth in modern healthcare and its potential to transform patient care.

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Table of Contents
Background of the context...............................................................................................................3
Factors affecting innovation of the project......................................................................................6
Benefits............................................................................................................................................8
Drawbacks.....................................................................................................................................12
Issues related to cost......................................................................................................................15
Circumstances of project success..................................................................................................15
SWOT analysis..............................................................................................................................16
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
Recommendation...........................................................................................................................17
Way forward..................................................................................................................................17
References......................................................................................................................................19

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Introduction
Selection of research topic: Topic selected is mobile health monitoring app
Relevance of the topic
The topic hosen for this report is mobile health monitoring application.
This topic is chosen as importance of mobile health monitoring application in regular day
to day life has been increasing. Several issues have been detected in the functioning of the
hospital management system as per the traditional method (Silva et al, 2015). This increase in
redundancy in the health management process. With the help of the mobile health monitoring
app, dynamic communication in between the patients and doctors is enabled. Real time
communication process helps in communicating in a proper manner. This is one of the major
reason that acceptance of this technology has been really high. Ever evolving nature of the
technology has also been affecting the entire system in a positive manner (Anderson, Burford
and Emmerton 2016). Knowledge gap is present in this sector. Hence this report will be helping
in proper data gathering and portrayal that will help in better understanding of the technology.
With an increase in usage of smart phones, number of mobile health monitoring system has been
growing in a rapid rate. Over 325,000 mobile health monitoring calculated in the year 2017. Out
of all the apps, 52 apps that are most popular are chosen. It was seen that over 63.25% of the
total apps did not provide appropriate information regarding the intervention of the app, nearly
67.3% of the total apps are related to the processing of mobile health monitoring system did not
provide any information regarding the professional; credentials of the mobile health monitoring
app. 4% of the total health monitoring app has been providing proper data regarding the efficacy
data supporting process. Hence there has been a gap in literature. This report will help in

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decreasing the literature gap. The global market of the mobile health monitoring app is getting
better financially. It is seen that the entire process of mobile health monitoring system was
valued at US$28.320 billion. It is also expected that the value of the entire system will be
US$102.35 billion by 2023 (Rickard et al, 2016). It is also noted that in the year 2014, only 14%
of the entire population was using the mobile heath monitoring system. It is expected that nearly
48% of the total population has been using this technology.
Future innovation
Mobile health monitoring application has been one of the most evolving technology and
has been developing in a very fast rate. With this fast rate of innovation introduction it can be
expected that mobile health monitoring system will be having technological growth in a very fast
rate. It is expected that in near future, the health monitoring app will be having a better
understanding regarding the issues detected in the app. It is expected that the monitoring app,
will be providing a first aid methodology to the patients (Payne et al, 2015). Another expected
innovation is detecting the location of the victim and hence helping them to find the nearest
hospital that is present around them. This will be helping in gaining of proper first aid system.
Background of the context
Mobile health monitoring app will help in better understanding the patients in
commencing of their treatments. This leads to the fact that management of the health related
issues can be performed in a better manner. With the help of the mobile health monitoring app
the main advantage that is received includes better imbibing of communication among the
patients and doctors. This imbibes the fact that proper understanding of the health related issues
can be detected in a better manner. This report will discuss about the technological innovation

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that has been imbibed in the technology of mobile health monitoring system. Contextual issues
that are present in the system are also stated in the report. This report will also discuss about the
stakeholders that are present in the system. Factors that are affecting the innovation process of
the mobile health monitoring app is also stated in the report. This report will also discuss about
the benefits that will be enjoyed by the stakeholders and the users of the mobile health
monitoring app. Disadvantages that are present in the usage of the health monitoring app is also
stated in the report. Standardization and technical issues that are present in the mobile health
monitoring app is also stated in this app. Cost related issues are also stated in this report. Project
analysis along with SWOT analysis of the mobile health monitoring app will also be stated in the
app. Recommendations to mitigate the issues that are present in the mobile health monitoring
application will also be stated in this report.
Selected technological innovations
The technological innovations that are provided includes proper performance of the payer
provider analytics. In this case usage of quantitative data analytics has been performed. With the
help of the quantitative data analysis, proper understanding of the gap in between the doctors and
patients can be identified (Martínez-Pérez et al, 2015). Inclusion of artificial intelligence in the
health monitoring app is also one of the major innovation that is included in the process. Usage
of block chain for the processing of health care has been one of the major advantage that is
gained in order to transact data in an efficient manner. Usage of the Internet of Medical Things
have been an added innovation that has been affecting the technology in a positive manner.
Implementation of centralized monitoring system is one of the major aspects that commencement
of the project will get better as per the functioning of the entire monitoring app. Usage of the 5G
Mobile technology have been affecting the entire scenario as the functional process requires

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proper communication in between the doctors and the patients (Van Deen et al, 2016). This
innovation has been highly responsible for better acceptance of the health monitoring app.
Contextual issues
The contextual issues of a mobile health monitoring system includes Economic factors,
Cognitive factors and political factors.
In case of the economic factor, the main issue that is present incudes the fact that the cost
that is incurred in the processing off the mobile health monitoring app is very high. It is not
possible for all common people to hire the mobile monitoring app (Krebs and Duncan 2015).
This is one of the issue that affects the functioning of the acceptance of the product.
In case of governmental factors, the main issue that is present is that government bodies
are not well possessed with the robustness of the entire system. This is one of the major aspect
that usage of the mobile health monitoring app will not get used. This insists the fact that
functioning of the project gets less accepted by many (Semple et al, 2015). In case proper
robustness is provided in the product, government will take into consideration the usage of the
mobile health recording application.
In case of cognitive factors, the main issue that is present include complex functional
process of the mobile health monitoring app. This has been leading to least usage of the
application.
Stakeholders present

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The stakeholders that are present in the mobile health monitoring application includes the
staffs of hospital, the patient and the doctors. Hospital staffs, doctors and the patients are directly
affected with the use of the mobile health monitoring app (Rickard et al, 2016).
The patients can get to know the entire data regarding the health related issues. This is
one of the major aspects that benefits the data collection and analysis regarding their basic health
needs (East and Havard 2015). Patients will be well informed with the health conditions they are
in and hence they will be having proper details of their regular treatment results and hence they
can visit dieters hence wise.
The hospital staff are also affected in a positive manner, with the help of the help of the
health monitoring app, it will be easy for hospital staff to maintain records of the patients and
hence proper transaction will be performed (Munos et al, 2016).
Doctors will be well aware of the data that are generated after the testing of the patients.
The generated data includes proper understanding of the data that will be useful for performing
the treatment (Gay and Leijdekkers 2015). In case of data breaching the doctors can ain data
from the data that are present in the database of the mobile application.
Factors affecting innovation of the project
The factors that are affecting the innovation process are as follows: -
1. Funding: Amount of funding that is provided in the functional process will ensure that the
management of innovation can be performed in a better manner (Torous and Firth 2016).
In case the management of the project is to be performed with higher innovation higher
funding must be raised. Hence funding acts as one of the major aspect that will help in
increasing innovations in the mobile health monitoring app.

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2. Proper team must be built for better understanding of the functioning of the ensure
project. With a dedicated team the main advantage that is present includes better
management of the project as the dedicated system is highly skilled and knowledgeable
regarding the mobile health monitoring app (Kotz et al, 2016). In case the research and
development team is not well skilled the entire innovation scenario will get affected in a
negative manner.
3. Providing proper power to the employees in order to increase innovation in the mobile
health monitoring app.
4. Motivation of the employees are one of the major aspect that ensures innovation in the
field of mobile health monitoring application
5. Deploying innovation strategy is one of the major aspect of the implementation of
innovation.
6. Centralization of the organizational infrastructure has been the major concern for
implementation of innovation.
7. Collaboration among employees has been one of the major factor that affects innovation
implementation in mobile health monitoring app.
8. Presence of research and development team has been one of the major factor that affects
the implementation of innovation.
9. Diversity management has been one of the major factor as the diversity that is present
includes better performing of the innovation.
10. Establishing links in between clients helps in identifying the customer needs and hence
proper innovation implementation can be made.

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11. Proper scope definition is also another factor on which the innovation phase is dependent
on.
12. Transparency in the organizational department has been an important factor that provides
better innovation in the process.
13. Proper relation in between the employees and the board of directors also acts as a factor
that determines the processing of innovation in the mobile health application
14. Understanding client demands will help in increasing innovation.
15. Better understanding of the project scope has been one of the major factor that will affect
innovation implementation.
16. Better understanding of the system functioning helps in better understanding of the scope
of innovation.
17. Understanding the issues that are present in the system for the implementing the changes.
This will help in better understanding of the location where innovation is to be
implemented.
18. Understanding the change in demand of the customers will be a major factor for better
implementation of innovation.
19. Staying updated with the emergence of technology in the field of mobile health
monitoring system.
20. Managing the employees by personnel who are knowledgeable will help in increasing the
efficiency in the innovation planning
Benefits
Better point of care coordination

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In hospitals after completion of the initial stages of treatment the patients are released.
This leads to the fact that the patients are solely responsible for the process that is needed to be
completed in the post treatment aspect. In that case the patients are well explained as per the
medications that they need to take after their discharge. There is a high probability that the
patients might forget the name of the products that they need to use. Even a slight change in the
brand name or dose amount can affect the patients negatively. It is also stated that nearly 70%
medication errors are caused due to lack of provisioned prescription. This leads to the fact that
the management of the project will get hampered and hence the management of the post
treatment process will get affected. In this case the introduction of mobile devices has been
acting dynamically (BinDhim et al, 2016). This is one of the major reasons that inclusion of the
mobile application will be providing high benefits to the system. With the help of the usage of
the mobile applications regarding monitoring of heath the hospital management can take active
part in the following the patients’ health condition. Proper monitoring can also be done as per the
processing of the entire scenario (Grist, Porter and Stallard 2017). This will lead to the fact that
the management of the entire process will get performed as per proper monitoring can be
performed by the doctors. This is one of the major reason that functioning of the health
monitoring will get better.
Direct Patient Connection
In the initial stages, the main issue that health care industry was facing was lack of access
to patient data. There were no proper means that will help in proper monitoring of the patient
condition after discharging them. There was no mean to check whether the medicines that were
provided were up to the mark or not. There was no option to check whether the functional
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one of the major reasons that introduction of the mobile health monitoring app was accepted in a
drastic manner. With the help of the hospital management team will not only have a proper
discussion with the family members of the patients and help them to perform their extra
medication duties in a proper manner. This will help in bettering of the post treatment process. A
drastic change in the post treatment process is noticed after the introduction of the health
monitoring application.
Enhances Physician Efficiency
Physicians are considered as the backbones of the medical industry. Despite being
physicians over 75% of their time is spent in data entry process of the patients. This leads to the
fact that proper management of the project will get affected. This will lead to improper
management of the medication process. Data entry process is also not very accurate in nature. As
data entry process is performed by the physicians themselves, chances of having error in the
system is very high. This will lead to improper medication of the patients and this will have a
negative impact on the patients. With the introduction of the health monitoring system the main
advantage that is received includes increase in accuracy in the data entry part. With accurate data
entry proper treatment can be provided to the students. This have been one of the major aspects
that has been providing huge benefits to the medication process (Kelli, Witbrodt and Shah 2017).
As in case of the usage of the health monitoring app, the data that are generated as per the
patient are directly stored in the database, the entire process will get better and the accuracy of
the process will increase and also help in decrease the time that is wasted performing the data
entry process by the physicians.
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Keeping data and records of the patient’s personal information has been one of the major
concerns for the commencing of the project. Data of each and every patient storage has been one
of the major issues that has been affecting the processing of the hospital management. This led to
the fact that the patients were unable to get the appropriate treatment that must have been
provided to them (Borodin et al, 2015). After introduction of the mobile health controlling
application, the major advantage that is received is that the doctors are well aware of the
condition of the patients. This is one of the major advantage that helped in better treatment
receiving. This is one of the major reasons that functioning of the entire system has been getting
proper accuracy in treatment and confusion regarding patient data was omitted (Baldwin et al,
2017). Proper medication is received as the entire scenario has been gaining proper data of the
patients and hence proper management of treatment procedure can be performed.
Usage of high-end technology for Communication
Usage of high-end communication technology is one of the major advantage that is
received after the usage of the mobile health controlling application. In case of processing of the
treatment process, initially the patients had to visit hospitals for getting their treatment. This led
to wastage of time (Zhao et al, 2016). Patients had to wait in hospital which some time led to
degrading of their physical quality. Even due to excess number of patients, doctors cannot
properly perform the treatment. This also affects the functioning of the treatment process. With
the help of the implementation of the mobile health monitoring app, patients can be contacted
and hence the patients need not visit hospitals in a regular manner (Terry 2015). This will help in
increasing benefits in the communication in between the patients and doctors. This continuous
contact with the doctors visually, patients can get proper treatment in regular basis as they need
not visit the hospital in a regular manner.