Benefits and Opportunities of M-Health Adoption in Healthcare Among Nurses and Consumers
Abstract
M-Health use in the health sector is exponentially increasing day and night. The rate at which is being adopted into health is at high speed despite some impediments. This advancement signals the potential to advance nursing research, promote health, prevent diseases, and bring health services closer to consumers thus cost-effectiveness of health services, promoting health education and improving medical care by use of drugs. The objective of the study was to discuss the benefits and opportunities of M-Health adoption among nurses and consumers. A desktop search strategy was utilised to retrieve and review articles from five major scientific databases namely: PubMed, Google Scholar Science Direct Scopus and Cochrane Library. Inclusion criteria; articles published between 2013 and 2022, all articles that touched on M-Health in LMICs and HICs. Exclusion criteria; articles published before 2013 this was due to the robust advancement of M-Health technology. The articles retrieved, solely touched on both benefits and opportunities of M-Health. The most highlighted benefits and opportunities were as follows: M-Health has improved the quality of health care, especially in maternal and child health care, care of patients with either infectious or non-infectious diseases), Communication between nurses and nurses and consumers, the cost-effectiveness of health care services. The use of M-health to guide nurses in clinical practice, administration, research and education. The magnitude at which M-health is pervading the world is of great joy despite a few impediments. LMICs are required to continue to emulate the HICs' strategies in order to achieve a total adoption of M-Health in the healthcare system. This is due to the benefits and opportunities accrued with M-Health to the healthcare system, especially for nurses and consumers.
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