One of the major goals of IT in healthcare is to promote the extension of care beyond hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices to patients’ homes and other locations. Wireless communications is an important and essential part of these efforts, because unlike computers and other handheld devices, cellphones are ubiquitous, portable and provide both immediacy and convenience.A noteworthy development is that the arrival of Apple’s iPhone on wireless (cellular) markets, first introduced in 2007, has generated an explosive growth of applications aimed at or adapted for mobile users from 3rd party developers that are useful – or entertain – for a wide variety of purposes. Healthcare is among these purposes.
Some examples of healthcare on mobiles are:
Pharmacy locators such as Quick Pharmacy which locks in your GPS coordinates and then opens up iPhone Maps with the pharmacies closest to you.
Google Health, helps its users to organize health information like current prescriptions, any existing health conditions, previous procedures, known allergies and more in one place. The Anvita Mobile Viewer enables users of Google Health to view their profile data from Android-powered devices such as the T-Mobile G1. Similarly, Health Cloud is a native iPhone client for Google Health.Microsoft Heath Vault is also meant for storing and maintaining health and fitness information. And it is made available on mobile phones through AllOne Mobile’s platform.
Advances in this domain have barely scratched the surface on the ways these devices and mobile solutions will play out in the future. And just like the internet, the future of healthcare too is likely to be mobile.
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