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Review
. 2022 Jan;11(1):37-43.
doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1114_21. Epub 2022 Jan 31.

Mobile technology: A tool for healthcare and a boon in pandemic

Sadhana Sharma  1 , Bandana Kumari  1 , Asgar Ali  1 , Rajesh K Yadav  1 , Abhay K Sharma  1 , Krishan K Sharma  2 , Krishnan Hajela  3 , Girish K Singh  4
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Review

Mobile technology: A tool for healthcare and a boon in pandemic

Sadhana Sharma et al. J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Jan.

Abstract

Healthcare systems deal with disease prevention, early detection, diagnosis, investigation, and timely, affordable, and safe treatment. For the delivery of services in the health sector, communication is the key to linking the service provider and the patients. Mobile technology in the recent past has rendered various platforms of communications for the healthcare system. Thus, in health, mobile technology has greatly contributed to time management and cost reduction for healthcare at every level including hospital visits to individual appointments with doctors, hence the convenience. With advancements in mobile technologies and the growing number of mobile users, newer opportunities have opened up for the use of mobiles for patient care. Emerging information and communication technologies with the help of the Internet of Things (IoT) have been instrumental in integrating different domains of the health sector with mobile technology. Thus, the technology may have the potential to become powerful medical tools to support the health sector at all levels of care. In this review, the concept, applications, and advantages of mobile technology for health and the present pandemic have been discussed. It also discusses mobile health technology, as a support system for convenient and safer healthcare for public health, and the opportunities to improve its applications for unseen future health crises.

Keywords: Healthcare; mHealth; medical tool; mobile technology; pandemic; telemedicine.

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Mobile Technology applications for Healthcare systems and patients. Platforms for different domains of health
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Strategies and algorithm of mobile use in COVID-19 pandemic. The appropriate use of mobile technology will be instrumental in ensuring distancing, saving on resources of the healthcare system, time, and human lives. Appropriate clinical advice to the stable patients at home and identifying critically ill patients for hospitalization
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Summary of the article
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