Mobile Health Apps: Implementation Processes and Benefits

Mobile Health Apps in Health Facilities
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Mobile Health Apps in Health Facilities
Introduction
Health facilities, patients, and health workers are increasingly implementing mobile health apps in care delivery due to their multiple benefits, such as monitoring patients’ health remotely, comprehensive data collection and storage, and cost-effectiveness. Facilities should closely evaluate the moral, security, safety, and legal implications of using mobile health apps before the implementation process. This paper discusses mobile health apps and related concepts, including the benefits, a review of the literature, varying concern issues, purpose and goals, implementation process, and projected evaluation.
Explanation of Mobile Health Apps
Mobile health apps are programs or software on mobile devices like smartphones, personal digital assistants, and tablets that store and process health details. Maaß et al. (2022) explained that the apps change mobile devices into controlled medical devices or work as accessories to controlled medical devices. Patients, caregivers, and health workers use mobile health apps to improve, maintain, or manage health. By 2014, medical devices with fixed software and different functions like monitoring body temperatures and measuring heart rate had been operating for over two decades (Posada, 2014). Health apps have continuously evolved and are now multifunctional and user-friendly.
Benefits of Mobile Health Apps
Mobile health applications have multiple benefits to varying users. They enhance primary disease prevention, manage and support health among patients with chronic or other medical conditions, enhance treatment adherence, monitor health status and vitals remotely, and increase patients’ autonomy in making health decisions (Maaß et al., 2022). In addition, mobile health apps improve patient health outcomes due to enhanced access and availability of healthcare information and services (Ventola, 2014). Patients can also use mobile health apps to monitor their health vitals remotely when out of the hospital. Maaß et al. (2022) highlighted that mobile health apps could connect to varying devices to collect, measure, or track patients’ physiological states, health parameters, symptoms, and behaviors.
Additionally, mobile health apps increase utility and save costs, enhancing health economics in facilities. The applications also improve work efficiency in clinical facilities since they effectively diagnose, prevent, treat, and monitor illnesses or injuries (Maaß et al., 2022). Facilities can also use mobile health apps to modify, replace, or investigate patients’ physiological processes, such as heart rate and body temperature. Furthermore, health workers benefit from mobile health apps during clinical practice in varying ways. For instance, Ventola (2014) explained that mobile health applications manage tasks, time, and information, enhance access and maintenance of health details or records, enable information gathering, consultation, and communications with patients, enhance clinical decision-making due to medical guidelines, and references, diagnose, monitor, and manage pa...