mHealth (Mobile Health)
Definition: Mobile Health or mHealth is a term that describes the use of mobile devices to improve health care.
These devices include mobile phones, PDAs, monitoring devices, and any other wireless devices that are implemented to support a health practice.
MHealth devices are used to collect patient data, transfer clinics' data, between researchers, and even on devices that monitor patients in a health care provider's office.
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Survey: 78 percent of US interested in mHealth
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Definition: List of preferred prescription drugs in which different drugs have different co-pays, according to the policies of Drug Plans or Prescription Drug Benefits.
Each drug is assigned to a specific 'tier' within the formulary.
The most cost-effective drugs, often generic drugs, belong to the most preferred tier and typically have the lowest co-pay, whereas the least cost effective drugs belong to the least preferred tier and have the highest co-pay.
Tiered formularies encourage consumers to be cost-conscious in choosing their medications, and reward consumers for choosing generic medications by requiring lower co-pay.
Tiered formularies may also provide some level of coverage for prescriptions that might not otherwise be covered.
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For instance, emergency preparedness information is often disseminated on the Internet, which many people do not have access to, and there is limited availability of non-English information."
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