mHealth Intelligence September 2, 2016
A survey of healthcare quality improvement professionals finds strong support for mHealth initiatives, including provider-facing apps, wearables and remote monitoring platforms.
Health system executives are using mHealth to boost quality improvement efforts, according to a new survey. But success will only come if the technology improves clinician workflow.
A survey of more than 170 quality improvement professionals in healthcare finds that about 80 percent rate improving workflow efficiency as the top priority of new IT implementations. When noting that the top barrier is resistance to change, this means that healthcare providers won’t adopt mHealth and telehealth unless they’re convinced the technology won’t slow them down.
According to the survey, conducted by the American Society for Quality, 71 percent see wearables,...
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