{"id":1085,"date":"2015-06-30T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:23:56","slug":"easing-chronic-disease-management-mhealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/healthcare\/2015\/06\/30\/easing-chronic-disease-management-mhealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing chronic disease management with mHealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blood glucose tests. Careful diet planning. Medications. Appointments. Care management plans. Daily exercise. This is the life of a diabetes patient. And if you\u2019re thinking that\u2019s a lot to remember \u2013 you\u2019re right. Managing diabetes properly often requires a combination of the treatments named above. When adding these complex care plans to other life stresses, one can see how easy it is to slip up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, converging technologies \u2013 devices, applications, data analytics and cloud \u2013 are bringing new opportunities for clinicians, care teams and patients to better manage chronic disease care. Mobile Health solutions, or mHealth for short, are the result of this convergence, enabling patients to be more proactive in self-management. By improving education, encouraging and simplifying care compliance, and promoting positive health outcomes, mHealth is helping drive the change needed in chronic disease management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year Health Choice Network together with Microsoft, TracFone Wireless and MobiMedix launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/2014\/08\/21\/microsoft-and-tracfone-collaborate-to-offer-innovative-mobile-health-management-solution-to-the-healthcare-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mHealth pilot program<\/a> to tackle key chronic care challenges \u2013 education, encouragement and simplification. Using mobile technology and new care coordination techniques, pilot participants engage more frequently with clinicians, receiving the ongoing support critical for diabetes management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot program leverages the Microsoft Mobile Health Management Solution paired with a Windows phone, a custom, branded app from MobiMedix, and voice and data services from TracFone. Together these technologies offer an easy-to-use tool with a familiar interface, built on a more secure platform, which enables individuals to fully engage in managing their health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the core hardware and applications, Health Choice Network\u2019s team of experienced healthcare professionals use a variety of motivational communications in the program. These include targeted health reminders via text message, links to important information, scheduling of calendar appointments, secure messaging and lifestyle applications designed to encourage tracking of key measures for blood sugar, blood pressure, weight and activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe this solution will be highly impactful for participants in a number of ways. By simplifying care activities and providing useful information to support daily decisions, the program goal \u2013 improving key measures of diabetes patient health \u2013 is within reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the blog series as we further explore mobile health solutions, discuss how technology can improve the lives of thousands and share results from this mHealth pilot. We\u2019ll publish the next post in the series in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Health Choice Network is a recognized national leader in health information technology and financial services to primary, dental, and mental health community health centers and safety net providers. Health Choice Network uses state-of-the-art systems to capture, analyze, and leverage data, and promote meaningful use of electronic health record information to improve quality and access to care. We are a Health Center Controlled Network with 39 primary, dental, and mental health community health centers members in 19 states. Our services support more than one million patients and over 2 million visits annually.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.hcnetwork.org<\/a> to learn more about Health Choice Network. For more on how Microsoft is helping the healthcare industry innovate, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/health\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft in Health<\/a> or contact us via <a href=\"mailto:healthdigital@microsoft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MicrosoftHealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/health_it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Romillo of Health Choice Network discusses how mHealth technologies help chronic disease patients better manage their conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ms_queue_id":[],"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1507],"post_tag":[],"content-type":[1492],"coauthors":[955],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","content-type-news-and-announcements","review-flag-2-1593580438-395","review-flag-information-technology","review-flag-lever-1593580266-799","review-flag-new-1593580249-279"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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