Question

Most clinicians are too busy to perform literature searches for the best evidence. How can that be solved?

What kind of mobile technology can be used in Healthcare Management and what are the barriers?

Answer 1

Ans) Evidence based medicine (EBM) is conscious, specific, reasonable use of modern, best evidences in making decisions about treatment of individual patients.

- It is not a medical cook-book with recipes, but its good application brings cost-effective and better health care.

- Its real purpose is that by the use of the best possible evidence doctor chooses for his patient the best possible solution, wanting to provide to him the optimum health care in every aspect.

- It is also used to avoid major mistakes in the course of treatment, and by this raises the quality of provided health care to the patient. In a wider context, it can save the lives of our patients.

- EBM requires new knowledge from the physician, which means knowledge of English language and work on the computer, which provides access to medical databases, the ability to search medical literature and basic skills in the interpretation of epidemiological and statistical results.

- Once the physician masters the search technique and the use of EBM he/she gets mighty “ally “in their daily noble work. Since each physician must, in one way or another, seek valid information, we can say that the proper use of EBM saves doctors time and raises his level as well as the quality of provided medical services, and increases satisfaction of the health professionals.

- The explosive use of mDevices in the healthcare arena has several benefits including accessing the health information from anywhere at any time, delivering and monitoring healthcare, and educating and communicating with the patients.

- However, mobile technology has also brought serious security concerns as the wireless information travelling through the atmosphere is prone to be intercepted, interjected, modified, or even destroyed.

- Since the mDevice popularity for healthcare cannot be halted, adoption of best practices, such as strong authentication and encryption standards and protocols for securing health information stored on and/or accessed by these devices, is the best solution.

- Education and training of users and making them security cautious, should be used as first line of defense in securing the mHealth information.

- Creation of security culture among the users of mDevices would particularly yield rich dividends.