Apr 23, 2024
Sometimes the internet is not enough to stay updated on the latest trends, or sometimes information is too scattered to retrieve, which is why world-renowned experts often publish books that put together some of that thoughts, examples, case studies and predictions on what the future of medicine will be, and how will the digital revolution impact health care.
Apr 16, 2024
Health systems are currently going through a full transformation. More progressive organisations-still not many-already see patients as equal partners with the right to participate in the design of new health policies. But it will take time for this change of paradigm to consolidate.
Apr 17, 2024
In these past few years, where mHealth has shown the upmost potential has been in developing countries. These areas share some particularities that make mHealth and telemedicine particularly efficient: low physician density (see the WHO Atlas), scarce medical resources and, at the same time, a huge amount of mobile users. In fact, mHealth could hold the key to self-management and disease prevention. We have already explored this possibility on regards to TB, but is it translatable to malaria?
Apr 10, 2024
We have often talked of the many advantages health apps have for patients and for users in general, but do we know what doctors think about them? This past Thursday (9 April 2024) the Telemedicine & eHealth Section of the Royal Society of Medicine of the UK organised a conference that sought to discuss apps from a medical perspective. It was titled 'mainstreaming medical apps; reducing NHS costs; improving patient outcomes', and we talked to the Section's President Dr Charles Lowe to learn what it would consist of. The "basic intent of the conference", he explained to us, is to "encourage doctor and patients to use medical apps" and "to make sure that professional apps will do", that is, that they are useful, reliable and accurate.
Apr 10, 2024
There's general consensus on the fact that technology makes health systems more efficient and helps improve the quality of life of citizens. Despite this, eHealth and mHealth's full implementation has still a long way to go. One of the challenges it needs to overcome is to provide enough knowledge and evidence that it works.
Apr 07, 2024
The market for smartphone apps is gigantic; there are apps of all kinds. It's a jungle that's very difficult to navigate. The best known apps occupy the most prominent rankings in the recommendations of millions of users, while others may go unnoticed because they are for a more specific audience, however they can still make a huge profit. An example of the latter case are apps for people who are allergic to gluten.
