Melissa Thompson takes an interesting look at mobile healthcare in her Huff Post article about Frictionless Health. First I love the concept of frictionless healthcare. There is almost nothing about healthcare today that’s frictionless. There are points of friction everywhere in healthcare. Sometimes by necessity, but more often because of the culture of healthcare.
Here’s Melissa’s 5 reasons why the future of healthcare will be mobile:
1. Evolution: Mobile phones, are just “phones.”
2. Mobile empowers us…
3. and it empowers our healthcare providers
4. A New Dimension: Contextual Healthcare
5. Better, Faster, Stronger
I would take a simpler approach to explain why mobile health will be the future of healthcare. Our phone will become the central gathering point of all our health information. It will receive and transfer all the information from our sensors, from our medical providers, and any other health information. The phone will become our healthcare brain. It will know everything about our healthcare.
To me this isn’t a question of if, but when.
