mHealth is the use of mobile technology to deliver clinical care and public health solutions to some of the most remote parts of the world. In this video, HealthMaker and epidemiologist Alain Labrique, PhD, explains mHealth.
So mHealth is the application of mobile and wireless technologies to improve the delivery of clinical care and public health interventions at the population level. It's taking advantage of the ubiquitous transformation that we've seen in communications infrastructure in the hardest to reach most remote parts of the world and leveraging that potential to now connect individuals across the health system to compress their response time to crisis, but to also improve accountability of health systems to the populations that we serve.
Alain Labrique, MD, of the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control Program of the Department of International Health, explains what mHealth technology is and how smartphones can be used to make healthcare more affordable and effective.
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