Vendors focusing on mobile health offerings
Sometimes you can gauge the health of a market segment by the company it keeps. We know, for instance, that the mobile point of care has become a white hot focal point among vendors by the number of technology companies that are realigning themselves to supply the burgeoning demand for mobile health oriented products and services. In the case of work order and workflow management solutions vendor Agilis Systems, the company is pursuing the MPOC space through the establishment of a whole new division, appropriately dubbed Mobile Health Technologies.
By specifically targeting professionals in home healthcare, durable medical equipment companies, pharmaceutical distributors and patient transport providers, Mobile Health Technologies plans to combine the power of Agilis’ award-winning software with a team that boasts more than 30 years of combined experience in the healthcare technology field. Tim Finney, the new division's director of business development, said Agilis recognized that healthcare professionals providing care and services outside of traditional settings needed an easier way to access their back office systems. By launching Mobile Health Technologies to focus exclusively on those needs, the company's configurable software options promise to put the power of the back office right in the hands of field-based healthcare workers.
Mobile Health Technologies employs traditional GPS location-based tracking tools to deliver increased organizational efficiency and cost savings. Time and location stamps, electronic signature capture, bar code scanning and extending back office forms and policies to the field staff can go a long way toward promoting regulatory compliance and creating auditable trails for healthcare employees and their companies.
The software also supports features such as picture capture for wound management, payment processing at the point of delivery, and visit documentation at the point of care. Customers can choose a mobile device--and Bluetooth-enabled peripherals--to pair with Mobile Health Technologies’ modular software components.
