Why mHealth and Patient Engagement are Critical to the Future of Healthcare

In health IT, a lot of the focus on mHealth lies on the provider side. But how patients are using these technologies to improve their care is also becoming ever so important to healthcare’s changing landscape.

In the health IT industry, a lot of the focus on mobile health (mHealth) lies on the provider side—specifically how digital health tools are helping clinicians be more “mobile” within their workflows. In fact, this was precisely what HCI Senior Contributing Editor David Raths wrote about in this year’s Top Ten Tech Trends. This perspective is undoubtedly exciting and fascinating, and worth a read if you haven’t seen it already.