It's been reported that over 40 million additional patients could be treated in Brazil and Mexico alone in 2017 through the use of mHealth-related services.
"The implementation of mHealth services in Brazil and Mexico is expected to extend healthcare to 28.4 million additional patients in Brazil and 15.5 million patients in Mexico in 2017; as well as quip around 16 million citizens to improve their lifestyle and reduce the impact of chronic diseases, prolonging lives'" the GSMA report states (www.gsma.com).
It's also estimated that the cost savings of mHealth implementation could save the two countires a total of $17.9 billion. Even better, mHealth will create 200,000 jobs as its deployed.
According to GSMA, the four main barriers that will limit the adoption of mHealth across Latin America include regulatory, economic structure and technology-related obstacles.
Like many parts of the world, the healthcare in Brazil and Mexico focus on individual treatment and drug therapy rather than preventive medicine and patient monitoring.
"The fragmentation of healthcare systems in Brazil and Mexico restricts the sharing of information and alignment of processes, preventing mHealth from scaling effectively. The lack of interoperability and standardization of mHealth services can localize the implementation, limiting the scalability of mHealth."
Showing posts with label personal biometric screen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal biometric screen. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Interested in the Future of Smartphones for Healthcare?
… then have a listen to this podcast interview by Dr. Eric Topol, the Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer, as he speaks with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC).
Dr. Topol went on to say that smartphone apps and add-on gadgets will use saliva, cheek swabs, breath and even tears to run diagnostic screenings that now require a blood sample sent to a laboratory.
Listen to his podcast interview with the AACC here: The Future of Laboratory Medicine — Dec. 6, 2012
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Wellness Programs Turn To Biometric Screening
Biometric screenings are an increasingly important part of corporate wellness programs where employees monitor their blood pressure, cholesterol levels, triglycerides, blood glucose, and any other measurement that corporations and their employees choose to measure.
There are many reasons to do biometric testing such as health promotion, health awareness, and health education; however, the primary factor motivating organizations to have this service performed is economics. Health screenings have been shown to reduce overall medical expenditure by identifying risk factors and employees that need added health coaching services.
With a goal of early risk detection and intervention, biometric screening can help evaluate health and are geared toward encouraging healthy lifestyles. And now with the advent of in-home smartphone biometric screening, these measurements can help consumers take control of their healthcare destiny by prioritizing their well-being and help generate a personal healthcare regimen.
The biometric data you can collect at home can easily be stored digitally for years or decades, helping you build better health risk assessment baselines that you can use to analyze the success or failure of particular wellness protocols. Collected biometric data can even allow your doctor to assess your health over many years, helping him or her spot trends and more accurately diagnose problems.
There are many reasons to do biometric testing such as health promotion, health awareness, and health education; however, the primary factor motivating organizations to have this service performed is economics. Health screenings have been shown to reduce overall medical expenditure by identifying risk factors and employees that need added health coaching services.
The biometric data you can collect at home can easily be stored digitally for years or decades, helping you build better health risk assessment baselines that you can use to analyze the success or failure of particular wellness protocols. Collected biometric data can even allow your doctor to assess your health over many years, helping him or her spot trends and more accurately diagnose problems.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Is 2013 the Year of Smartphone Biometric Screening?
The confluence of new technologies and consumers’ desire to take control of their healthcare destiny is pushing personal biometrics into the medical mainstream.
Imagine your smartphone as the first, best tool in your quest to get fit, stay healthy and optimize peak athletic performance. Well, from iPhones to Androids medical professionals and hardware developers have joined forces to move personal biometric testing from the physician’s office to your mobile phone.
In what seems like a matter of months, this new field of smartphone biometric testing/screening has blossomed into a multimillion dollar industry headed to multibillion in the next year or so.
Early adapters and serious fitness trainers will be using their smartphones to test personal health parameters in important areas such as stress levels (via cortisol), testosterone and estrogen production, fertility, cholesterol health, lactate levels (to track recovery after exercise) and more.
For personal biometrics, tests are being developed that use a drop of saliva and a small measuring unit that attaches to your smartphone. Results are instantaneous and can be stored and tracked on your phone.
Right now, these units are being sold to physicians, particularly those in rural areas and under developed countries, as a kind of portable lab. (The physician units can also test a number of parameters in the blood.)
As a local Salt Lake City physician explains, “Americans are concerned about their health and fitness levels and are also wary of upcoming changes in medical services and costs as ‘Obamacare’ begins to roll out. The idea of testing for fitness levels, stress levels and early signs of a potential healthcare concern is attractive for physicians, insurers and individuals. If used wisely, these tests could reduce the number of doctor visits, help lower insurance costs, help individuals improve their health and fitness and give consumers some control over their healthcare options.”
Already in 2013, a patented test for cortisol, which can tell you a lot about stress levels (and consequently the numerous problems exacerbated by stress – including weight gain), is being rolled out in the first quarter. Other tests will follow as the year progresses.
Not so long ago, in fact just a few months ago, personal biometric testing was done in a doctor’s office and those taking advantage of the service were more likely to be California fitness fanatics, starlets and athletes.
In 2013, the rest of us will get this health advantage in our homes, on our phones and for just a few dollars per test.
If you want to see a testing unit (blood) in use by a physician traveling in the Kalahari Desert in Africa, visit http://youtu.be/pLcDQNaR84U
The unit is a patented smartphone device from I-calQ (www.I-calQ.com).
Imagine your smartphone as the first, best tool in your quest to get fit, stay healthy and optimize peak athletic performance. Well, from iPhones to Androids medical professionals and hardware developers have joined forces to move personal biometric testing from the physician’s office to your mobile phone.
In what seems like a matter of months, this new field of smartphone biometric testing/screening has blossomed into a multimillion dollar industry headed to multibillion in the next year or so.
Early adapters and serious fitness trainers will be using their smartphones to test personal health parameters in important areas such as stress levels (via cortisol), testosterone and estrogen production, fertility, cholesterol health, lactate levels (to track recovery after exercise) and more.
For personal biometrics, tests are being developed that use a drop of saliva and a small measuring unit that attaches to your smartphone. Results are instantaneous and can be stored and tracked on your phone.
As a local Salt Lake City physician explains, “Americans are concerned about their health and fitness levels and are also wary of upcoming changes in medical services and costs as ‘Obamacare’ begins to roll out. The idea of testing for fitness levels, stress levels and early signs of a potential healthcare concern is attractive for physicians, insurers and individuals. If used wisely, these tests could reduce the number of doctor visits, help lower insurance costs, help individuals improve their health and fitness and give consumers some control over their healthcare options.”
Already in 2013, a patented test for cortisol, which can tell you a lot about stress levels (and consequently the numerous problems exacerbated by stress – including weight gain), is being rolled out in the first quarter. Other tests will follow as the year progresses.
Not so long ago, in fact just a few months ago, personal biometric testing was done in a doctor’s office and those taking advantage of the service were more likely to be California fitness fanatics, starlets and athletes.
In 2013, the rest of us will get this health advantage in our homes, on our phones and for just a few dollars per test.
If you want to see a testing unit (blood) in use by a physician traveling in the Kalahari Desert in Africa, visit http://youtu.be/pLcDQNaR84U
The unit is a patented smartphone device from I-calQ (www.I-calQ.com).
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