The percentage of smartphone owners wanting heath care alerts or notifications on their mobile devices has reached a new all-time high.<\/p>\n
A recently published global survey by\u00a0FICO<\/a>\u00a0shows that 80 percent of people would like the option to use their smartphones to interact with health care providers.<\/p>\n The predictive analytics and decision management software company says these organizations include government and private insurers, hospitals, pharmacies, mail-order drug companies, third party administrators and clinics.<\/p>\n <\/span>Also worth noting is that the survey revealed that 76 percent of people worldwide are \u201ckeen to be reminded of their medical appointments\u201d and 69 percent would like to receive reminders to arrange appointments or to prompt them to take their medication.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way health care organizations communicate with people is changing, as individuals become more and more sophisticated about using information technology to make health-related decisions,\u201d said Stuart Wells, FICO\u2019s chief product and technology officer.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are especially interested in mobile services that can help them manage their personal health and shop for health care services,\u201d Wells adds. \u201cThe leading health care providers are increasingly turning to mobile technologies to meet this demand, and to engage frequently and proactively with consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The percentage of smartphone owners wanting heath care alerts or notifications on their mobile devices has reached a new all-time high. A recently published global survey by\u00a0FICO\u00a0shows that 80 percent of people would like the option to use their smartphones to interact with health care providers. The predictive analytics and decision management software company says … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhealthwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhealthwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhealthwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhealthwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhealthwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mhealthwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/mhealthwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhealthwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}