Survey respondents were asked to rate, on a scale of one to seven, the extent to which their organization leveraged mobile technology to improve a specific area of patient care. The top eight areas include:
- Pharmacy management (average score of 3.73)
- Preventative support care (3.48)
- Care continuum (3.48)
- Telehealth interventions (3.42)
- Closing the gap in health disparities (3.40)
- Resource utilization (3.19)
- Facilitating discharge management (3.04)
- Pharmaceutical research validation (2.63)
Survey results were based on responses from 170 health IT executives from a variety of healthcare organizations. About two-thirds of respondents work for hospitals or integrated delivery systems while 14 percent work for ambulatory facilities or physician practices.
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