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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

However this solution is very hard to use if one is using programming tools more common on lightweight systems such as Mobile. So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

APIs, Internet of (Healthy) Things, and AR/VR among the others are getting deployed in retail channels and at home to support peoples’ health in the real world, in real time outside of the clinical setting. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.