By Lexi Elo
There are more than 90,000 health apps on the market, with 60 per cent of them focusing on wellness, [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”8″]
SUNDIATA POST investigations reveal.
A recent World Bank report tracked more than 500 mobile Health (mHealth) studies, and many donor [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]agencies are lining up to support the “scaling up” of mHealth interventions. Yet, there is still a lot to do, as most of the projects are pilots, with limited prospects for [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]wide-scale implementation.
Joan Cornet, Director, mHealth Competence Center (mHCC), Barcelona, Spain raised concerns over the safety of Health data.
“How can we guarantee protection of health data, once it is outside the health care system? How can we [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]have personal identification that is safe enough for accessing personal data? What clinical evidence do we have when we use mobile solutions for chronic diseases? Which standards for full interoperability are needed? How much savings could mobile solutions bring? Where are the business models?”
” In other words, who pays for mobile solutions? And, if we have answers to these questions in the industrialized world, what about developing countries, where the potential for mobile technology in health is even greater? How can they successfully apply mobile technology to support improved health outcomes?”, he asked.