Archive: September 2011

mHealth should be an aid for patients and caregivers. Lately I have realized that as there are predicted to be so much money in mHealth, that in it self threathens the entire future of it.

Ads for conferences like

“Its 2015 and the value of the mHealth industry has reached US$10bn, healthcare providers worldwide are reporting considerable cost savings and improve processes.

What are you doing to ensure that you secure your bit of the mHealth pie?”

keeps filling my inbox. This can jeaprdize the entire credibility of mHealth in the future. mHealth can only be a success if the applications are developed by healthcare proffessionals and if they fill a real need for the patients. I know, I said that before and probably will say again!

Just like everybody praised healthinformation on the Internet when it arrived, everybody parises mHealth applications today, without checking out the credibility of the service and if the information in it is validated by a professional.

Anyone can develop an app. But can you trust the information in it when you are not face to face with the information provider and when everybody is racing for it’s piece of pie of the mHealth pie?