mHealth challenges video #3

The video discusses mHealth, the use of mobile phones to support health and medicine. It highlights the benefits, such as medication reminders, and challenges, including affordability and lack of infrastructure. Solutions like low-cost smartphones and funding from organizations like WHO are explored. The importance of project evaluation and the need for app interoperability are emphasized. The video concludes with the potential of mHealth to improve healthcare, especially in resource-limited areas.

What is mHealth primarily used for?

• To provide entertainment

• To support health and medicine using cell phones

• To increase internet usage

• To replace doctors and nurses

What is one major challenge in implementing mHealth in some parts of the world?

• Too many healthcare professionals

• Limited access to electricity and internet

• Overabundance of smartphones

• Lack of interest in health

What is being done to make smartphones more accessible for mHealth?

• Developing smartphones that cost $50

• Increasing the size of smartphones

• Making smartphones heavier

• Reducing the number of apps

Why is it important for different mHealth applications to share information?

• To increase competition among app developers

• To make mHealth more effective

• To reduce the number of apps available

• To make apps more expensive

What is the role of big data in mHealth?

• To replace traditional healthcare

• To make sense of collected information

• To reduce the need for smartphones

• To increase the number of apps