SoftClouds and mHealthsys have announced that they will work together to develop next generation healthcare applications for mobile devices to help manage chronic conditions including diabetes.
Diabetes is rapidly increasing in our aging population, partly due to obesity, partly due to age. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that 20.8 million people in the U.S. had diabetes in 2010.
SoftClouds, a provider of enterprise mobility and mobile application development services, and mHealthsys hope their app will help patients remain at home and out of the hospital through remote monitoring. With their combined apps, SoftClouds will help to provide development services for mobile platforms and help mHealthsys launch its next generation mobile healthcare application.
Mobile devices allow patients to be monitored from their homes or just about anywhere, while reducing the costs of hospitalizations and readmissions.
Smartphones already are starting to change the way consumers get access to patient data, but a new report finds they also are starting to change the way patients use remote monitoring devices, according to Pamela Lewis Dolan.
She writes that Juniper Research, a Hampshire, England-based market research firm, recently published a study predicting that, by 2016, three million patients worldwide will be remotely monitored using a smartphone to transmit information. Dolan adds that devices using a smartphone to transmit data “will lower the cost of mobile health services by reducing the need for more costly devices.”
Finding a way to lower these costs is vital. mHealth vendors believe they have the way.
Edited by
Brooke Neuman
