A recent study has found that mobile health applications could benefit diabetes patients and that the use of health apps by diabetes patients could improve health outcomes and lower medicine costs.
The findings of the study will be published in the journal ‘MIS Quarterly’, a publication of the Management Information Systems Research Centre.
Emerging smart mobile health or mHealth technologies are changing the way patients track information related to diagnosed conditions. This study examined the health and economic impacts of mHealth technologies on the outcomes of diabetes patients in Asia.
The study concluded that compared to patients who did not use mHealth applications, patients who used the apps had better health outcomes and were able to regulate their health behaviour more effectively. They also had fewer hospital visits and lower medical costs.The study was conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and New York University (NYU).
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