M-App & Health Knowledge Management – Virtual Artfacts between Doctor & Patient

Abstract

Knowledge is more and more a strategic resource for health or- ganizations while information and communication technology earns an important role for sharing knowledge and informations among people in and out organizations. These conditions satisfy specific demands related to the new emerging information needs, asking for a change in relation- ships and effective communication. So, the Medicine Apps represent an emerging and rapidly developing framework for health system, able to contribute to its quality and efficiency. The same Union European and U.S. Supervisory Authority activated in the last years an appropriate study in order to control the Medical Applications downloaded directly through mobile devices and able to influence health performance. This work presents the results of the descriptive studies in order to make clear the general dynamics and functionality of the Medicine categories Apps and their effective support in the relationship between doctors and pa- tients; in addition, it will be possible to know how such a tool can create virtual communities that influence the same quality of patient care.