Health and Mobile

In our previous post,we discussed about how mobile platform is now gaining ground for applications in health.

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As health care of an individual is always changing,and mobile phones are now a part of our life,it is but natural,applications about health management on mobile phones become a part of our lives in upcoming years.

Mayo clinic is now forging on its Mobile startegy,in a interview on Mobile health news-Scott Eising discuss about Mayo Clinic group Mobile road map

There are two strategies there — we have a referring physician portal today that is a secure portal where a physician who wants to refer a patient to Mayo logs in, fill out a profile on that patient, submit it and upload things like medical records that may be necessary for the referral. The patient may or may not end up coming to Mayo, but if they do, then the portal is where we refer back to that referring physician the status of the visit and the opinion or the outcome of it. So we are doing some user research right now and asking that group which aspects of that referring physician portal might be of more value if they were accessible via mobile devices. Certainly, you could imagine an alert or a reminder sent to the referring physician when new information was pushed to their portal. Maybe we could provide them some sort of preview into that information via mobile device or a way to put in a simple request for a referral from their device. So, we have a user survey out to that group so we can find out how we can better optimize that experience for those users. Obvioulsy being a tertiary destination medical center, referrals are a big part of where our patient base comes from. They are looking for that specialty expertise that Mayo provides and that they can’t get in their community. Referring physicians are an important partner for bringing patients to Mayo or for patients finding their way to Mayo.