Availability of Mobile eHealth & Human Service Applications Increasing
OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News Physicians and human service professionals are increasingly relying on applications for cell phones, PDAs, and iPods to deliver or monitor services for consumers. Currently available e-health applications for smartphones (Internet-enabled cell phones) and PDAs include diabetes management, nutritional counseling, cardiac arrhythmia monitoring, mobile microscope photo sharing, health datapoint tracking, medication guide, drug monitoring, and blood pressure tracking. In a presentation entitled “High Leverage From Low Tech: Health & Human Service Uses of Cell Phones, iPods, PDAs, and More” M. Colleen Elmer, M.S.W., M.B.A., LCSW, discussed . . .
