The potential of mHealth in pharmacy

The next frontier in healthcare? The next step in patient-centered delivery of health services? Technology’s next overhyped bubble? There are grains of truth in all of these labels that have been given to mHealth. However, what is beyond debate is that there are opportunities with mHealth. In particular, I am optimistic about the opportunities with mHealth for pharmacists. To that end, I asked several colleagues to help outline the potential of this informatics arena. Those efforts were recently published as an article in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacists (AJHP). My hopes are that this article serves to increase awareness of these opportunities and perhaps spurs some pharmacists to capitalize.

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Source: Clauson KA, Elrod S, Fox BI, Hajar Z, Dzenowagis JH. Opportunities for pharmacists in mobile health. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013;70(15):1348-1352.

Kevin A. Clauson, Pharm.D., is Associate Professor; and Shara Elrod, Pharm.D., is Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Brent I. Fox, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Zaher Hajar, Pharm.D., is Fellow in Consumer Health Informatics, College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University. Joan H. Dzenowagis, Ph.D., is Senior Scientist e-Health World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.