The patient benefits of mihealth

Patient benefits

mihealth can help patients to understand their condition and to take control of their health and well being.

• Improve communication and the decision making process
  
  
• Help patients to make effective choices
  
  
• Strengthen the health professional/patient relationship
  
  
• Enable better self care
  
  
• Increase satisfaction with the healthcare experience
  
  
• Immediate access to high quality, accurate, up to date information
  
  
• Reduced hospital visits and in patient stay
  
  
• Accessible support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  
  
• Easy to use
  
  
• Saves time and effort
  
  
• Enables patients to understand, organise and manage their care more effectively
  
  
• mihealth can quickly educate family and friends to provide an informed support network
  
  
• Can provide information to access health and social care organisations