Sharma Sadhana, Kumari Bandana, Ali Asgar, Yadav Rajesh K, Sharma Abhay K, Sharma Krishan K, Hajela Krishnan, Singh Girish K
Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India.
Department of Neurosurgery, (Trauma and Emergency), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Jan;11(1):37-43. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1114_21. Epub 2022 Jan 31.
Healthcare systems deal with disease prevention, early detection, diagnosis, investigation, and timely, affordable, and safe treatment. For the delivery of services in the health sector, communication is the key to linking the service provider and the patients. Mobile technology in the recent past has rendered various platforms of communications for the healthcare system. Thus, in health, mobile technology has greatly contributed to time management and cost reduction for healthcare at every level including hospital visits to individual appointments with doctors, hence the convenience. With advancements in mobile technologies and the growing number of mobile users, newer opportunities have opened up for the use of mobiles for patient care. Emerging information and communication technologies with the help of the Internet of Things (IoT) have been instrumental in integrating different domains of the health sector with mobile technology. Thus, the technology may have the potential to become powerful medical tools to support the health sector at all levels of care. In this review, the concept, applications, and advantages of mobile technology for health and the present pandemic have been discussed. It also discusses mobile health technology, as a support system for convenient and safer healthcare for public health, and the opportunities to improve its applications for unseen future health crises.
医疗保健系统负责疾病预防、早期检测、诊断、调查以及及时、可负担且安全的治疗。对于卫生部门服务的提供而言,沟通是连接服务提供者和患者的关键。近年来,移动技术为医疗保健系统提供了各种通信平台。因此,在医疗领域,移动技术极大地有助于各级医疗保健的时间管理和成本降低,包括从医院就诊到与医生的个人预约,从而带来便利。随着移动技术的进步和移动用户数量的增加,利用移动设备进行患者护理出现了新的机遇。借助物联网(IoT)的新兴信息通信技术有助于将卫生部门的不同领域与移动技术整合起来。因此,该技术有可能成为强大的医疗工具,在各级护理中支持卫生部门。在这篇综述中,讨论了移动技术在医疗保健及当前大流行中的概念、应用和优势。它还探讨了移动健康技术作为公共卫生便捷、安全医疗保健的支持系统,以及改善其在未来未知健康危机中应用的机遇。