Mobile solutions for the healthcare industry

A Prescription for Improved Clinical Collaboration & Better Outcomes In Healthcare

Mobile Solutions for the Healthcare Industry

Enterprise mobility is gaining momentum each passing day! It has become imperative for organizations around the world to find different ways to connect with customers, employees and clients using new devices and applications, and healthcare industry is not an exception to it!

The healthcare industry is one of the early adopters of enterprise mobility. Today, evolution of various mobile devices and apps significantly contributes towards each & every aspect of health care industry. mHealth solutions are playing a crucial role in solving a few major challenges faced by the industry including rapidly changing regulatory environment, increasing costs, reduced profitability, demand for more powerful and effective treatment and so on.

Introduction

A Cygnet Infotech WhitepaperMobile Solutions for the Healthcare Industry

Bringing mobility to the healthcare – specifically to the clinical care operations – could be a great way to enhance patient care, minimize the complexity, boost up efficiency and enable healthcare professionals with insights of at the site of care.

According to the survey conducted by HIMSS 2011 (Healthcare Information and Management Information Society),

1 More than 72% of the caregivers were deeply interested to get connected to the monitoring devices.

Recent studies conducted by Telenor Group and the Boston Consulting Group shows that almost 30% of the Smartphone users are interested to use wellness apps by 2015. The study further shows that using mobile apps for healthcare can greatly reduce the costs in elderly care by almost 25%.

2 72% of the US physicians use Smart-phones, the number expected to reach 81% by 2012.

3 86% of the medical professionals are interested use their smart-phones to access EMR information.


Mobility in healthcare, which appeared initially in the form of basic services like getting doctor appointments, call centers and so on, has expanded its scope today by covering major portions of the healthcare activities. With mobility becoming a vital medium for the patients and medical organizations, today the patient care has taken a huge shift.

According to the recent survey conducted by PwC HRI, not only the mobile users but the medical professionals are also interested in using wellness apps to perform their day to day tasks. The study shows some interesting facts and figures on how choosing mobility solutions can help physicians.

The Significance of Mobile Solutions

Why Enterprise Mobility Is Crucial For Healthcare


According to an earlier PwC HRI survey, Percentage of Doctors who commented on the impact

of mobile apps

Boost up the

collaboration among

the medical

professionals

Minimize the time for administrati

ve tasks

Establish better

bonding between

patients & doctors

56%39%

36%24%

Accelerate their

decision-making


Today, healthcare systems across the world are facing a wide range of issues like constantly increasing population without any direct or appropriate way to access the medication, lack of professional and well-qualified professionals, the rise of new kinds of diseases and shrinking economical resources.

On the other side, various mobile devices like tablets, smart phones and so on are rapidly becoming popular among the medical practitioners. Mobile apps for healthcare have become more secure and easy to integrate with various operations within the medical organizations.

How healthcare mobile solutions address the major concerns or issues of healthcare industry?


Major concerns of healthcare industry

How to bring down the overall expenses of the medical and make the medical treatments more affordable organizations.

How to target major issues of best practices and decision support processes.

2How to enable healthy interaction between the members, which helps in streamlining their activities.

How to make important tools and critical information available in the hands of end users and those who offer and manage medical services.

How to enable healthy interaction between the members, which helps in streamlining their activities.

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Benefits of mHealth Solutions

Responding promptly to constantly changing conditions of the patient as critical information is being delivered.

Making it easy and simple for the clinical users to enter and unlock the information they require to make decisions.

Identification and determination of the best suitable medical treatment for patients while improving the quality of treatment and streamlining the work process.

Enabling decision makers to get the right information at their finger tips using role-based data analytics on mobile devices.

Mobile applications or solutions offer a whole host of benefits to medical / health organizations. Creating and deploying enterprise-level mobile solutions for health industry can help them achieve desired objectives or goals while reducing the expenses and complexity of the operations.

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Today, mHealth solutions have become a driving force that simplify and streamline the complex operations within the healthcare organizations. Wellness apps are opening the new doors of immense opportunities for the physicians and patients to determine the best suitable medical treatment and manage their health on the fly.

Scope Of mHealth Solutions


• Asset Tracking• Demand &

Capacity• Tracking Business

Analytics• Job Scheduling

Administrator

• Appointment Alert• History of the

patient• Medical Reference• Metabolic

standards

Physician

• Patient History• Job Schedule• Medication Alerts• Drug requisition • Metabolic

standards

Nurses

• Alert For Medication

• Care History• Instructions By

Physician• Real-time medical

assistance

Patient

• Stock Alert• Stock Details• Fulfil drug

requisitions

Pharmacist

• Physician’s instruction

• Real-time coaching

• Patient details

Pathologist

Opportunities for Mobility in Healthcare


Scope Of The Healthcare Solutions

Treat, manage and monitor a patient’s illness remotely with the help of mobile devices.

Patient Monitoring

Deliver health related advice through professional medical experts in an emergency.

Call Center's & Patient Help

LinesEnable virtual consultation between the medical professionals and patients through voice, text, data or imaging functions of mobile devices.

Telemedicine

Software to guide professionals about clinical diagnoses of patient based on their medical history.

Decision Support System

Gather and display detailed records of the patient at the point-of-care through mobile devices.

Maintain Records

Asset tracking, demand & capacity management, appointments, monitoring and more

Better Administration


As per the survey conducted in 2010 by research2guidance, Smartphones and tablets will offer great opportunities for the mobile healthcare business by 2015 and therefore, enterprise mobility is the FUTURE of the healthcare industry!

The Future


Cygnet Infotech developed an universal iOS application for physicians that helps them check investigation reports and x-rays of patients while they are away from their clinic or hospital. This anywhere and anytime access to patient’s diagnostics assists them to keep a continuous track on treatments for critical patients.

A Case Study

• Display of X-rays and Reports with zoom feature

• Notifications of new X-rays and Reports

• Thumbnails and Search Feature


Cygnet Infotech is a global IT services and IT solutions provider with clients in 23 countries. Mobile application development is our forte and we have developed mobile apps for various industries including healthcare, education, entertainment, telecom, travel and tourism.

All images in this whitepaper have been used for illustrative purposes. Cygnet does not claim rights to any image except the logo.

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