Mobile Health in Urology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

ABSTRACT: Our aim is to present the current position of mobile health (mHealth) and the delivery of healthcare services via mobile communication devices in urology. We conducted a literature review of urology mHealth papers on PubMed. Results indicate that mHealth is becoming ubiquitous in contemporary healthcare systems. Although its potential has been shown, urology lags behind other areas, representing just 0.1% of the 300,000 available medical apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Furthermore, there is a lack of expert healthcare professional involvement in app development. To avoid harm, it is critical that the scientific accuracy, patient privacy, and user safety of urology mHealth applications are assured. This is because there is no globally enforced medical app regulation, comp

SUBMITTER: Pereira Azevedo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7231179 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature