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Mobile health apps which measure all aspects of the wearers' daily activity from distance walked to blood sugar levels are seeing a huge growth rate this year. Additionally, remote connectivity from phones and tablets to desktop software such as electronic health record (EHR) systems is increasingly popular among healthcare professionals and practitioners, allowing as it does greater flexibility by freeing users from their desktop environment. They can achieve more, faster, while on the move.
This growth in mobile healthcare (often abbreviated to mHealth) promises fantastic opportunities to change the whole way of working, of delivering and receiving treatment. Healthcare itself is changing due to this game-changing phenomenon. Of course, there is a 'but'.