Chief Healthcare Executive March 5, 2021
The study findings offer general practitioners’ views on prescription mHealth apps.
It is necessary to understand the expectations and fears of general practitioners in order to motivate them to recommend mobile health (mHealth) apps to their patients.
The results of the study demonstrated the need to provide appropriate education and training to enhance general practitioners’ digital skills. Further, the findings highlighted the need to overcome technical issues like interoperability between data collection and medical records to limit the disruption of medical work because of data flow.
Aline Sarradon-Eck, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues investigated French general practitioners’ attitudes toward the prescription of mHealth apps or devices aimed toward patients. They analyzed practitioners’ perceptions and expectations...