The document discusses disease management strategies using mobile apps and SMS, emphasizing the importance of accessible technology for patient care and medication administration. It highlights historical developments in mHealth, including studies and market growth predictions, as well as the regulatory landscape for health apps. The conclusion stresses the need for user-focused, text-based services developed collaboratively by healthcare professionals and patients to ensure success.

1. RegPoint
Disease
Management
Reaching
the
pa2ent:
mobile
apps
or
SMS?

2. Tsunami Center Disease Control First Responders
Internet,
Cable,
LAN,
GSM/GPRS,
3G,
CDMA
Data
Care Collec2on
Can monitor patient Analysis
wireless and change Patient Admin
medication regardless Doctors & Nurses
of location
Data
Gateway
Cable,
LAN,
GSM/GPRS,
3G,
CDMA
Pocket
Community member
Reminders
Patients with a chronic disease
Notifications
People in disease outbreak areas

3. The RegPoint service is tried tested and prooven
1997
Individual symptom registration via PDA on limited number of people
2002 Clinical Study on Parkinson patients
2003
Individual symptom registration via mobile phones on unlimited
number of people
2004 - De facto standard DMS
- Whitepaper ”Cost savings in disease management –
diabetes”
2005 Joint development project with the Foreign Ministry –
Sweden for mobile warning and alert service

4. APP or SMS ?
• Global • Gartner estimate worldwide Q4 2011
sales of smartphones at some 149
million. Their total across the year was
472 million or 31% of mobile
communication device sales.
• US • 46%
• Europé • 44%
• India • 15%

5. Are health apps medical devices
according to the current EU law?

7. Is software covered by the medical
devices directives?
Recital 6 of Directive 2007/47/EC states that "it is
necessary to clarify that software in its own
right, when specifically intended by the
manufacturer to be used for one or more of the
medical purposes set out in the definition of a
medical device, is a medical device. Stand alone
software for general purposes when used in a
healthcare setting is not a medical device."

8. SMS
• No need for expensive CE marking
• Affordable
• Works on all mobile phones
• Costeffective development
• Available for everyone

9.
Can anyone develop a health app?
“Smartphone Health
Applications Will Exceed $400
Million Annually by 2016”
“The Market For Mobile
Healthcare Applications Will
Grow To US$ 1.3 billion in
2012”

10. Real life experience
• Operator starts a new company with a more health related name
• As most un-experienced they target patients with diabetes
• They develop an app by their best knowledge
• When piloted, the patients did not see any value in it and asked if they
could continue to use paper and pen instead
• When the CEO was asked when they expected ROI on the service, he
sighed deeply and answered “It is very far away, maybe never”

11. Conclusion
A succesful mHealth application is a
textbased service developed by health
care professionals and patients on existing
technology available for all
Thank you for your attention
E-mail: sophia.salenius@regpoint.eu
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