1. Exploring mhealth
Christina Papanikolaou, MD
General Secretary for Public Health
MWC 26 February 2014

2. Exploring mhealth: conclusions

3. mhealth apps: facts & figures

4. Exploring innovation apps in health
mhealth ehealth
Tele-
care
Tele-
health
Tele-
medicine
Sustainability of Healthcare Systems
Cost-containment solutions
More efficient, safe and high-quality healthcare
Tools for development and job creation
Respond to
the challenges
of today

5. New Questions
Patient – physician relationship
mHealth: tool or purpose?
Large-scale deployment of apps: regulatory
framework (privacy, security issues),
reimbursement
Healthcare systems reforms able to support and
integrate new apps
Primary Healthcare

6. Apps for real people
with real needs
mhealth: The Greek Landscape

7. Region of Central Greece

8. PPP for poor-resource settings

9. Large-scale apps in Greece
• Nation – wide ICT systems
• Patient summary
• E-prescription
• ICD-10 guidelines
• 48.000 physicians
• 12.000 pharmacies
• ~ 5 million e-prescriptions per month …

10. Strategic Plan involving mhealth
Primary health care reform: supported by
mhealth
Implementation of large scale prevention
programs (population screening with portable,
mobile devices)
Remote monitoring of chronic patients
Big Data: evaluation and quality of information
Reimbursement (social funds? services
providers? …)
How we proceed from now on

11. Greece at MWC 2014

12. eHealth Forum: Athens, May 12-14

13. http://ehealth2014.org/
eHealth Forum: Athens, May 12-14

14. eHealth Forum: Athens, May 12-14

15. Seeing you
in Athens!
eHealth Forum: Athens, May 12-14