mHealth must meet the need of the patient
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I am so delighted that Professor Ganapathy today in his key-note speach at the GSMA-mHA summit highlighted what I have failed to hear on other congresses and that I am a strong advocate for;
mHealth must meet a real need of the patient!
Not just a mHealth application where the “homework” is not done by new and old players who are eagerly trying to get a large piece of the big mHealth cake.
As I mentioned before, no business decision should be made before the new product – in this case mHealth services – clearly meets the need or solves a problem for the end user – in this case patient.
You can read his entire speach at http://bit.ly/iQL0hQ below an extract from it;
LIVE FROM GSMA-mHA MOBILE HEALTH SUMMIT: Professor Krishnan Ganapathy, president of the Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation, warned that “mobile health can never, ever, be set to take off unless it is integrated into the core of the healthcare delivery system.” Crucial to this is the need to generate traction among healthcare professionals, with Ganapathy arguing that healthcare providers should be “first among equals” in the mobile healthcare ecosystem. However, he also argued that the needs of patients must be central to the discussion: “It is the end user who needs to decide. Have you ever spoken to him to ask him what is it he wants? I think this is very, very important if you are going to make it successful.”