HealthTech Magazines July 30, 2021
By Edmondo Robinson, CDO, Moffitt Cancer Center
Mobile health, or “mHealth,” has received an increasing amount of attention recently in connection with approaches to combating the COVID pandemic. mHealth, as defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a relatively simple concept: the delivery of healthcare services via mobile communication devices. In reality, this simple definition may mask a rather complex interplay between patients, providers, payers, policy, and the underlying infrastructures that support the health of populations.
To address equity, mHealth solutions should be designed by diverse product teams that focused on an expanded customer experience discovery process.
mHealth includes a relatively broad set of solution types. These solutions range from mobile applications focused on health care...