As per the World Health Organization, m-Health can be defined as the “use of mobile and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives.” With more than half the population using smartphones and mobiles, healthcare needs to be on fingertips. Thus, m-health is the use of technology and connections to bring healthcare services to common people in one-go.
M-health uses all forms of telemedicine to provide effective medical care to everyone. Be it as apps that track your health, or technologies like live videos to match you to the right doctor, everything can be done via m-health. The basic difference between telehealth and m-health is that m-health is just a medium of telehealth. Through m-health different telemedicine solutions like RPM, POC diagnosis, medication management and medical imaging can be performed.
There already are a lot of big players working on innovative m-health technologies. Therefore, m-health has a lot of potential to be developed for the healthcare industry.