mHealth – also known as mobile health - refers to the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, personal digital assistants and the wireless infrastructure. Within digital health, mHealth encompasses all applications of telecommunications and multimedia technologies for the delivery of healthcare and health information.

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PRESENTED BY
LOKESH D
MPH 1ST SEM
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
DEPT. OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE
JSS MEDICAL COLLEGE
MODERATOR
DR PRAVEEN KULKARNI
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DEPT. OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE
JSS MEDICAL COLLEGE

2. OVERVIEW
• How e health and m health related..?
• What is m health and its importance..?
• Wireless devices
• M Health Uses
• Health care personnel and mobile health
• M health solution, sustainability and partnership
• Benefits and limitations
• Summary
• References
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3. E Health
An emerging field in the intersection of
medical informatics, public health and
business, referring to health services and
information delivered or enhanced through
the Internet and related technologies
m Health is a subset field of e Health
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4. WHAT IS M HEALTH ?
The WHO has defined mHealth
as the use of mobile and wireless
technologies to support the
achievement of health objectives.
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5. WHY M HEALTH
IS IMPORTANT ?
FACTORS:
• Unprecedented growth of mobile phone users
• Rapid expansion of mobile networks
• Innovation in mobile technology
• Task shifting and other health system needs
in developing countries
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6. WIRELESS DEVICES
• MOBILE PHONES
• MONITORS
• SENSORS
• GSMA m Health Tracker
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7. M HEALTH
USES
Family planning
Maternal and child health
HIV/AIDS
Vector Borne Diseases
Tuberculosis
Health system functions
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8. Social and behavior change communication (SBCC)
Mobile for Reproductive Health (m4RH), which provides information about family
planning methods and a clinic locator service via text messages.
CycleTel™, a text-message service piloted in India that delivers the Standard Days
Method® (SDM) of family planning to a user’s mobile phone.
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9. SAFE PREGNANCY AND BIRTH APP
• How to stay healthy during pregnancy
• How to recognize danger signs during pregnancy, birth, and after
birth
• what to do when a danger sign arises
• when to refer a woman to emergency care
• Instructions for community health workers with step-by-step
explanations such as “How to take blood pressure,” “How to treat
someone in shock,” “How to stop bleeding.”
• https://apps.hesperian.org/app
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10. MSWASTYA-CDAC
Mdestination
India
Medical
Emergency
Consult a
doctor
Diabetes
Monitor
Vaccination
alert
Medicine
Monitoring
Hospital
Search
Patient
Monitoring
BMI Calculator
Blood
Pressure
monitoring
Calorie
counter
Nutrition facts OPD Schedule Fitness Track Feel Safe
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11. Strengthening Health
Systems - Dristhi Project
Dristhi Smart Registries Platform,
uses Android tablets and multiple applications to
improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child
health (RMNCH) care among rural populations
in Karnataka State, India.
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13. HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL & M HEALTH
• Education and awareness
• Remote data collection
• Remote monitoring
• Communication and training for healthcare workers
• Disease and epidemic outbreak tracking
• Diagnostic and treatment support
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14. View of an M Health Solution
Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) Project in Uttar Pradesh,
India.
ReMiND equips government community health workers (called ASHAs), with
multimedia phone-based job aids to support client assessment, counseling,
treatment and referral. Implementing partners are Catholic Relief Services
To illustrate mHealth solution development best practices.
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15. Steps to m Health Sustainability
• Initial planning and concept
development
• Solution design and testing
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Scale-up and sustainability
• project management,
partnerships, and stakeholder
engagement.
• Attention to these cross-cutting
tasks is important throughout
the development process.
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16. Build a Broad Base of
Key Partnerships
• The ministry of health
• NGOs
• A technology partner
• Telecommunication companies
(“telecoms”)
• Local community organizations
• Donors
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17. M Health Potential Benefits
To help improve access
to health information
To enhance
the delivery of proven
public health
interventions
Generate cost
efficiencies
and improve the
capacity of health
systems
To provide quality
health services.
For strengthening
health systems
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18. Key limiting factors in m HealthLack of electricity
Availability of mobile services
The cost of phones
and voice/text
services
Gender inequities
in mobile phone
ownership
Literacy
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19. SUMMARY
• Mobile Health or m Health, describe the use of and wireless communication
technologies to improve Health care Delivery Outcome and Research.
• M health poised to play a major role in engaging patients in self care as
smart phone ownership is rising globally.
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20. REFERENCES
• https://www.globalhealthelearning.org/mhealth
• https://www.nhp.gov.in/m-health_mtl
• https://www.who.int/goe/publications/goe_mhealth_web.pdf
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116535/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/mobile-health
• www.gsma.com
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