The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine: Leveraging Innovation, Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles of mHealth - Softcover

Cerrato, Paul; Halamka, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 012814923X ISBN 13: 9780128149232

Publisher: Academic Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine: Leveraging Innovation, Seizing Opportunities, and Overcoming Obstacles of mHealth addresses the rapid advances taking place in mHealth and their impact on clinicians and patients. It provides guidance on reliable mobile health apps that are based on sound scientific evidence, while also offering advice on how to stay clear of junk science. The book explores the latest developments, including the value of blockchain, the emerging growth of remote sensors in chronic patient care, the potential use of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant as patient bedside assistants, the use of Amazon's IoT button, and much more.

This book enables physicians and nurses to gain a deep understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of mobile health and helps them choose evidence-based mobile medicine tools to improve patient care.

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Highlights the rapid advances taking place in mHealth and their impact on clinicians and patients

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The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine: Leveraging Innovation, Seizing Opportunities, & Overcoming Obstacles of mHealth

By Paul Cerrato and John Halamka

The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine addresses the rapid advances taking place in mHealth and their impact on clinicians and patients. It provides guidance to help choose reliable mobile health apps that are based on sound scientific evidence while offering advice on how to stay clear of junk science.

The book explores the latest developments in mobile health, including the value of blockchain, the emerging growth of remote sensors in chronic patient care, the potential use of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant as patient bedside assistants, the use of Amazon’s IoT button in a hospital or nursing home setting, the latest mobile apps being developed in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and elsewhere, machine learning, and much more. These innovations and opportunities, however, also need to be put into the context of clinical medicine as it is currently practiced, which poses challenges in terms of validation and implementation. With these concerns in mind, it addresses criticisms and scepticism in the medical community and takes a critical look at the published literature on mobile apps in diabetes, heart disease, asthma, mental health and other common disorders.

This book enables physicians and nurses to gain a deep understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of mobile health and helps them choose evidence-based mobile medicine tools to improve patient care.

Key Features:

• Provides clinicians and technologists with an update on the latest mobile health initiatives and tools, including the work done at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
• Encompasses case studies with real world examples to turn abstract concepts into flesh and blood examples of how mHealth benefits the public
• Presents drawings, graphics and flow charts to help readers visualize the functionality and value of mobile medicine

About the Authors:

Paul Cerrato, MA, has had over 30 years of experience working in healthcare, as a clinician, researcher, author, editor, and college lecturer. The last 7 years have been spent researching and writing about healthcare technology. He has served as Editor of Information Week Healthcare, Executive Editor of Contemporary OB/GYN, and Senior Editor of RN Magazine. Cerrato is the author of Protecting Patient Information and the co-author with John Halamka of Realizing the Promise of Precision Medicine. He has been named one of the most influential bloggers in healthcare IT by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

John Halamka, MD, serves as the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is also Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess System and a practicing emergency physician. Dr. Halamka serves on one of the advisory committees for the Precision Medicine Initiative, which has been funded with $215 million from the U.S. government. He has devoted his career to empowering patients, providers, and payers with mobile-friendly applications exchanging data using international standards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 012814923X
• ISBN 13: 9780128149232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232