Mobile medical and electronic health development present situation analysis

May 19, China Mobile Beijing and the Chinese people's Liberation Army General Staff General Hospital (309) sign strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly promote the digitalization of 309 hospital and informatization.

It is learnt that both sides have begun from the network coverage and promote mobile technology in the field of medical information development to further enhance cooperation in areas such as the breadth and depth.

Beijing Mobile will design and deliver a combination of information solution, including internal office management and external medical service to two major aspects, specifically related to unified communications for intelligent buildings, energy saving and environmental protection, electronic registration, medical information exchange platform, mobile security, real-time case management, community health, seven applications. 309 hospital will build on the comprehensive application of information technology, accelerating the creation of intensive, green, ecological, intelligent "new military hospital".

Beijing Mobile Vice President van cloud Jun, for medical personnel to provide the full range of information services and promote mobile medical care in hospitals, the hospital will help improve service level of management.

Mobile medical and electronic health

In recent years, mobile medical (mHealth) has become electronic medical (eHealth) one important field of branch.

So, what is the mobile health, international health member organizations of the HIMSS defines as, mHealth, is through the use of mobile communication technologies — such as PDA, mobile phones, and satellite communications to provide medical services and information.

It is a developing health services provides an effective method of health care human resources shortage, through mobile medical can solve medical problems of developing countries.

At present in the global healthcare industry adoption of mobile application solutions, you can basically summarized as: Wireless rounds, mobile care, drug management and distribution, barcode application of patient identification band, wireless voice, Internet call, video conferencing and video surveillance.

It can be said that the patient in the Hospital experienced all of the process, from registration, payment of hospital medicine, infusion, equipped with liquid/dispensing centres, sample collection and handling, first aid rooms/room, to discharge the checkout, you can use mobile technology to be optimized. Because mobile applications to highly original shared hospital information system, and make the system more mobility and flexibility, so as to achieve streamline workflow and improve overall productivity.

Mobile application for another significant contribution to reducing medical errors.

In the process of patient care, the likely transfer links of nursing staff, as well as the mistakes dispensing, drug lifetime management, specimen collection and so do the link errors. According to the United States authorities revealed that each year more than 15 million cases of drugs misuse accident occurred in the United States in the hospital. To avoid these errors, you need to get health care staff in a timely manner and to confirm the patient's medical information, make sure that the correct time, on the right of patients to correct treatment.

Low-cost mobile phone and the global popularity of the mobile communication network, obvious to the medical concepts provides a viable technological base.

In the past dozens of years, mobile communication technology always adhere to the following direction: Compact, faster and less costly. These characteristics in application software and hardware, network access, standards and services, and many other aspects, but also reflects the future will continue to follow this direction. Now, a large number of services are available through more integrated, fast and cheap bandwidth access implementation; network also has a strong capacity, coverage is wider. These are applied to promote the continued development of mHealth and go beyond simple one-way data service mode.

According to the ITU (International Telecommunication Union), and other organizations, statistics, about 64% of mobile phone users in developing countries.

Moreover, it is expected that by 2012, all remote areas residents will have half owned mobile communication device. The popularity of mobile phones, to use mobile technology in support of the medical service provides the critical infrastructure.

According to industry sources predict that only to China, for example, mobile medical led market size, approximately in the billions of Yuan, and involve a wide range of peripheral industries, equipment and product variety.

The real start of this market, its impact is not limited to medical services itself, you will be directly touches including network vendors, systems integrators, wireless, equipment suppliers, telecommunications operators, the chains of interest, thus affecting the communications industry's existing layout.

"Ubiquitous" in medical research

More and more embedded solutions provider for mobile and wireless medical devices made their own solution.

Some companies are developing embedded medical sensor shirts, watches and rings, they are used to monitor various physiological parameters of the human body and its conditions for monitoring, mobile surveillance technology benefits many, such as the patient having to stay in hospital, at home easily access to basic medical doctor drug data, patient information more comprehensive and basic activities are not restricted, and many other benefits. Currently, most monitoring product need conductors will data transfer to the PDA or PC for analysis, but wireless monitor has also begun to enter the clinical applications and daily health and medical work.

In May this year, Dell launched in addition to its "mobile clinical computing" solution, further expansion of the Chinese medical information market.

A message from Dell, and Dell is currently assisting the Ministry of health in China to develop standards, implementation of electronic medical records, and regional sharing of information exchange. Dell is the only company from mobile medical industry IT vendor, Intel, Cisco, have set up a professional mobile healthcare industry sectors.

Of course, now entered the prospects are very promising market of the company goes well beyond this.

The company has established the California VivoMetrics LifeShirt company, is developing is equipped with a sensor shirt, shirt of sensing devices able to human respiratory function monitoring, people with sleep apnea syndrome and put it on, the patient will not have to go to the hospital for specialized sleep clinic dedicated to spend a nightIn order to make diagnosis of inconvenience, at present, this shirt is available in 5 new drugs in clinical trials research, data collection on the patient.

In Europe, with a compact, low price now embedded computers and wireless network technology, the development of all kinds can put on guardianship system work very well, investment funds approximately 1600 million.

Ericsson, Nokia, Philips, and other companies are carrying out research and development work.

Philips present research project is MyHeart, that is on heart exploitation can be care of clothes, Ericsson is the development of the system is currently the European MobiHealth, tested the system to PDA-based, will the collected data via mobile phone network system is transferred to the doctor for medical advice and treatment care diagnosis, MobilHealth via Bluetooth technology and placing the sensor on the human body to connect the sensor gets patients data transfer to the doctor's room.

However, the mobile applications involving technical diversity and complexity of implementation, to a certain extent also to "ubiquitous" mobile medical obstacles.

In fact, standards, application security, depth are mobile medical solutions provider focused on the needs. In this regard, some in the industry believe that application solution providers also lacks the depth of hospital users with mobile application services products. This lack of capacity to the industrial chain has also failed to realize the whole product value creation and delivery, the hospital also could not get more personalized products and services.