This book defines the phenomenon of mHealth and its evolution explaining why an understanding
of mHealth is critical for decision makers entrepreneurs and policy analysts who are pivotal
to developing products that meet the collaborative health information needs of consumers and
providers in a competitive and rapidly-changing environment. The book examines trends in
mHealth and discusses how mHealth technologies offer opportunities for innovators and
entrepreneurs those who often are industry first-movers with regard to technology advancement.
It also explores the changing dynamics and relationships among physicians patients insurers
regulators managers administrators caregivers and others involved in the delivery of health
services. The primary focus is on the ways in which mHealth technologies are revising and
reshaping healthcare delivery systems in the United States and globally and how those changes
are expected to change the ways in which the business of healthcare is conducted. mHealth:
Transforming Healthcare consists of nine chapters that addresses key content areas including
history (to the extent that dynamic technologies have a history) projection of immediate
evolution and consistent issues associated with health technology such as security and
information privacy and government and industry regulation. A major point of discussion
addressed is whether mHealth is a transient group of products and a passing patient encounter
approach or if it is the way much of our health care will be delivered in future years with
incremental evolution to achieve sustainable innovation of health technologies.
