STUDY OF MOBILE HEALTH (MHEALTH) ADOPTION

Abstract

A mobile/smartphones are amazing gadget fit for planning variety of purpose beyond its basic role of telephony. A lot of promotion among versatile innovation, particularly smart phones, fitness trackers, smart wearables are designed to cater the ever-increasing need of health care industry and personalized health care innovations. People have begun use smart phones / apps for workout regimes, net banking, e-commerce, playing video games, watching movies, recording and editing videos, browsing, travelling industry etc. It is an obvious fact, the impact of technological innovation on our daily lives is progressing by each passing minute. Smartphones, apps and smart wearables are an amazing combination that has made it exceptionally simple and helpful to track day to day activities and monitor them in real time. Portability and user-friendly devices penetrating even in the medical industry. mHealth is normally can be understood as mobile health it covers a lot under its umbrella, Health related apps, websites, wearables which can track real-time or whenever required are covered under this. Few good examples of these are Practo,1mg, Pharmeasy, Fitbit, Apple watch, Mi trackers, Garmin and many more brands offer from basic to very advanced features to its users. mHealth is about using the technology to cater more and more patients or individuals and to improve their reach to everyone. In India, there is significant market and untapped space to use mHealth as an optional medical care. Underlying, monetary benefits made big requirement for mHealth. The primary issues are fundamental. Admittance to even basic medical services is a test on the grounds that the supporting framework also, assets are deficient. Monetary requirements like rising medical care expenses and restricted spending designation for medical care by the public authority further compel the medical care environment in India. Conduct factors such as change in way of life have come about in more up to date sorts of sicknesses which expect admittance to experts who are not many in 5 number and can't be reached through conventional methods for medical care conveyance.