Remote Patient Monitoring on the Rise
There is a new trend growing in patient safety and it involves a little bit of efficiency and a whole lot of technology. More and more hospitals, doctors and everyone in between are using smart phones to track patient progress.
According to a recent article on TechCrunch:
“Early last year, PEW Research was already reporting that 17 percent of mobile phone users were using their devices to look up health and medical information, and Juniper recently estimated that 44 million health apps were downloaded in 2011.
In turn, the amount and availability of health data is exploding in tandem with the growing adoption of health and medical apps and devices, thanks to the increasingly wearable and user-friendly devices that use smart sensors to capture and transmit a variety biometric data. Electronic medical records (EMRs) are being made available on mobile devices