Where Mobility Is Heading To In The Healthcare Sector?

By Author: Jennifer Lewis
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As we advance towards a better world, we see numerous technologies affecting businesses and processes in the healthcare sector. These advancements are forcing this sector to adopt newer modes of information retrieval and mobility is one of them. In past some time, the healthcare sector has witnessed a huge switch in how doctors and support staff are rendering their services. This switch is mainly driven by doctors and support staff, patients and then by external agencies like pharmacies, laboratories, vendors and contractors. At present, biotech and pharmaceutical industries are running ferociously and evolving big time to embrace this technology. According to data collected by Manhattan Research, in 2011 more than 81 percent physicians were using smart phones in their office. This rate was just 72 percent in 2010. Moreover, the demand of permission to access data from personal devices is also gaining pace slowly thus becoming the biggest factor behind healthcare sector evolving and embracing smart devices.

The pressure of evolving was also the result of more consumers adopting mobility culture for healthcare purpose ...
... thus getting healthcare sector, the nickname of "lazybones". Seeing this evolution, numerous mobile apps developing companies started developing apps for this industry, as they know that employees that use smart devices will look for apps to help them conclude various tasks and activities. In a study conducted by the American Electronics Association (AEA), patients were questioned about their preferences in using their smart devices. Most of them said they would employ them to communicate with their doctors and nurses, seconded by their use to access and store vital health related information. Amidst this, it is very interesting to see where this cult is heading.

No doubt, tablets are increasing their expansion rapidly in every segment healthcare business. They are successfully improving the quality of patient care rendered by hospitals, laboratories, clinical management systems, pharmaceutical services and bio-technological advancements. The rapidly increasing number of smart device users across healthcare institutions is now forcing them to get enterprise apps that are optimized for smart phones and tablets both. They are obligated to use apps that provide integration of existing information system and introduce smart devices as the best medium for data gathering and dissemination.

The rapidly advancing technology has now enabled patient monitoring systems and software to communicate directly with the smart phones and tablets integrated with them. These devices are capable of uploading critical patient data over the web through Wi-Fi networks and send vital information directly to doctor-owned smart phones and tablets.

App development companies are innovating hugely to develop more advanced and complicated apps that are capable of catering various needs arising in the healthcare sector. They are developing mobile health apps for the use of patients as well as the healthcare staff. These apps include dashboard for accessing patient health report, disease and condition monitoring apps, data collection and consolidation apps. They promise to help healthcare staff with business intelligence and analytics, scheduling and calendar management, dispensing prescription to the patients, quick Rx refills, getting new drug information instantly, collaboration, communication etc.

CONCLUSION

In terms of adopting of enterprise mobility, we have already started to scratch the surface and with technologies advancing more and more, there looks no end to the possibilities. Healthcare staff will use this culture in the best possible way and dig out for more opportunities to improve the services catered by them.

The author is associate with one of the best app development Dallas company with its team of app developers provides iPad app development solutions to the clients.