FSU-Daytona Beach
Informatics: Prescribing Medical Apps to Patients
• Identify current medical uses of apps in addition to medical reference which can be used by patients to improve or manage their health; to include healthy lifestyle, disease monitoring, measurement of adherence, disease management, research, and data collection.
• Identify reasons for prescribing apps to patients, including the benefits and barriers to prescribing apps to patients
• Describe how some practices and healthcare institutions are currently prescribing apps to patients and using the data collected by these apps.
• Describe the FDA oversight of medical apps and devices that communicate with smartphone apps
• List HIPAA and security considerations for smartphone app usage by patients
• Describe ways EMRs are developing apps for patients and integrate data from other apps
• How this technology will evolve healthcare