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Outline
Intro
The current status quo
mHealth to the rescue!
Statistics around mHealth
What's next for the healthcare/mHealthmarket?
What about HIPAA?
Should you invest in a mHealth app?
App demo
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Status Quo
Status Quo
Status Quo
“A recent MGMA study found that even well run practices have a daily average of 12 percent no-shows and last-minute cancellations. Some practices actually experience a whopping 50 percent rate.”
- Medical Practice Insider
Status Quo
For every 100 prescriptions
written
American College of Preventive Medicine
50-70
go to a pharmacy
48-66
come out of the pharmacy
25-30
are taken properly
15-20
are refilled as prescribed
Status Quo
The Status Quo
Inefficient
Ineffective
Costly
Barrier to access
mHealth
What is mHealth?
It means, “mobile health” - A term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices.
mHealth
“Steve Jobs Rejected The First Medical App In 1977”
- Forbes
mHealth
Types of mHealth apps
Education and awareness
Helpline
Diagnostic and treatment support
Communication and training
Disease and epidemic outbreak tracking
Remote monitoring
Remote data collection
mHealth … and many more.
mHealth
Instant Heart Rate
Healthtap Pulse OX
mHealthStatistics
Patients“Eighty percent of global smartphone users in survey indicated interest in using their smartphones to interact with health care providers.”
“56 percent of US Adults want to monitor their health with connected health devices that automatically connect online and send information to doctors and other caregivers.”
“Over half of tablet users over the age of 55 use tablets for health purposes.”
- Practice Unite
mHealthStatistics
Doctors
“mHealth apps that enable patients to self assess chronic diseases early can save European doctors and paramedic staff 472,000 doctor days.”
“50% of physicians in survey use their mHealthtechnology everyday.“
“86% of healthcare professionals believe that health apps will increase their knowledge of patients’ conditions.”
- Practice Unite
What’s next for mHealth?
Growth. Lots and lots of growth.
What’s next for mHealth?
“… the mHealth global market is projected to reach $49.12 billion by 2020 with a compound annual growth rate of 47.6%.”
- Practice Unite
What’s next for mHealth?
We predict…
A huge surge in mHealth apps in the next 25 months
Larger brands entering the market
Niche innovations from healthcare insiders
Increase in security features
More flexible regulations
What about HIPAA?
“…signed into law by Bill Clinton on August 21st, 1996. To put this in its technological context, HIPAA predates the first iPhone by 10 years, the first iPad by nearly 14 years.”
- True Vault
What about HIPAA?
What about HIPAA?
You should worry about HIPAA if:
1. Your app stores, collects, manages, or transmits any Personal Health Information (PHI)
2. Your app sends email that includes or might includes PHI from your mobile app
3. Your app uses push notifications that could possibly include any PHI
Take home: Deal with PHI? Then HIPAA.
Should you invest in a mHealthapp?
If you have 3, then yes
1. Know the industry very well
2. Have a unique idea not in the market
3. Have a better idea than what’s in the market
4. Have a budget of$40K or more
5. Have clinical experience
6. Know how market penetration works in healthcare
7. Know a niche very, very well
mHealthapp demo
References
Articles http://www.medicalpracticeinsider.com/best-practices/one-
way-solve-no-show-problem
http://www.acpm.org/?MedAdherTT_ClinRef#Statistics
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2014/02/27/steve-jobs-rejected-the-first-medical-app-in-1977/
http://www.mhealthnews.com/news/top-mhealth-apps-rated-doctors?page=1
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476623,00.asp
http://www.practiceunite.com/30-stats-illustrating-mhealths-impact-on-healthcare/
https://www.truevault.com/blog/5-pitfalls-mobile-app-developers-face-when-it-comes-to-hipaa-compliance.html
http://www.statista.com/statistics/295771/mhealth-global-market-size/
References
Images http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/movies/the-
waiting-room-about-highland-hospital-by-peter-nicks.html?_r=0
http://www.1ohww.org/physician-suicide-doctor-dies-suddenly/