Mobile Health Care Can Save You Life

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As advances in technology occur, so does the way the medical profession can store and access a patients medical records.  No longer are warehouses being needed to keep medical records. They are becoming digitalized and stored electronically.  By doing this, a doctor with mobile health care capability can have a patients medical history within seconds.  The advantages of a doctor being able to have in front of him your family history, previous medical treatment and illnesses is not only convenient but can be lifesaving.  

The possibilities are endless.  An individual can have their whole medical history on a card.  A medical emergency occurs, and the medical professional can scan your card in a mobile health care device and have everything in front of them. From blood type to X-rays, prescriptions taken and other medical details  When a life or death decision might have to occur, seconds manner and hard decisions have to be made.  These precious seconds are saved when you are able to have access to these important records with mobile health care devices.  

The technology is there and most hospital and emergency rooms are using one of form or another of Mobile Health Care.  In the long run though, it is very cost effective to switch over to mobile health care.  It eliminates the need for costly storage areas that can be up to five dollars per square foot.

Mobile Health Care Benefits Seniors

With mobile health care, the physician can have  a patient medical records and history at their fingertips.  It is very beneficial, for the doctor to have all available information in diagnosing and treating a patient.  With the steady population of seniors increasing, many do not have access to transportation to see doctor.  With high speed Internet, WiFI and other wireless capabilities, along with high definition web cameras, health care professionals can monitor  an elderly patient at their home while he or she is in the office.  This has allowed more elderly to remain living in their homes during their senior years, rather than having their loved put them in a nursing home.

Mobile health care also allows families and workers in remote areas to receive medical care and treatment.  A case of a woman scientist being diagnosed and treated for cancer while in the Arctic during the winter months has been in the news.  With no access to a medical doctor, she was treated via mobile health care until she was able to be flown out.   

As technology advances, so does the possibilities become wide open in the medical field with mobile health care.  It can bring a whole different meaning to the term doctor house visits.  

Mobile Health Care Allows for Immediate Treatment

More and more hospitals and research centers are devoting a tremendous more money and time in the emerging field of mobile health care.  Physicians are now studying the possibilities of diagnosing injuries, sickness and diseases from photo's sent via a cell phone.  Imagine an injured mountain climber able to take a photo of his injury and transmit it to a health care professional, who is a thousand miles away, while he waits for a rescue team.  The medical personnel can examine, diagnosis the injury and instruct the rescue team or even the injured climber what treatment is needed to save a limb or even his life. 

A ambulance arrives to an accident scene and the EMT needs some immediate medical advice on a badly injured car accident victim.  The EMT can broadcast the patients situation via a high definition web cam to a nearby  hospital with  mobile health care.  This can allow the doctor to walk through the on-site EMT through medical treatments that could save a life.  Or a doctor is mobile on-site and needs a health care reference or a patients medical history.  With Mobile health care, this is available at their fingertips through the doctor's laptop or cellular phone.