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1.Gives patients faster access to providers and care.
Unlike traditional and inefficient telephone access to physicians and healthcare organizations, mobile health technologies enable patients to quickly send secure messages, schedule appointments, and connect to providers 24/7 for telemedicine visits. In fact, telemedicine is one of the fastest growing ways patients are using mHealth apps on their mobile devices. They love the convenience of conducting a provider visit on their phone or tablet, as well as the fact that they don’t need to travel to the physician’s office or take time off work. Most health systems are responding to the uptick in demand by offering telemedicine visits delivered by network physicians, as well as contracted telehealth physicians after hours and on weekends.
2.Improves medication adherence.
Once patients are discharged from the hospital or leave the clinic, it’s tough to control whether or how they take their medication.
3.Makes remote patient monitoring possible and easy.
Remote patient monitoring is a subcategory of home care and telehealth that enables patients to use mobile devices and mobile health technology to gather, enter, or automatically collect health data and transmit it to healthcare providers.
4.Increases medication reconciliation accuracy, which improves patient safety.
It’s common knowledge that many patients do not recall the names and dosages of the medications they are taking. This is a particular problem for polypharmacy patients (those taking more than five different prescription medications each day), elderly
