Mobile health technology can be a great help to health care providers in meeting different mandates of health reform, including better coordinated care, patient population management and secure health information exchange. But without the right strategies in place, there can also be risks to using mobile health technology.

With a thoughtful approach, health care organizations can successfully mobile health technology to benefit:

• Coordinated care. Appropriately connecting and sharing information among providers’ mobile-enabled devices to provide better coordinated care.
• Clinical outcomes. Evaluating and selecting the best apps to support clinical decisions.
• Patient population management. Supporting patient engagement through mobile-enabled patient portals, and using telemedicine and remote monitoring to improve health care access and compliance.
• Workflow efficiency. Using mobile-enabled devices, services and software to optimize data retrieval and documentation, as well as health care transactions.
• Security. Maintaining secure health information exchange in a mobile environment.