We are now relying more and more on our various mobile devices to complete many every day, even the more complicated, tasks for us. Users from all fields are increasingly using their smartphones and tablets to access mobile medical apps for their extreme multitasking abilities and their efficiency. The medical field is no exception. Where medics and paramedics of the bygone days used expensive medical equipment to help patients during emergencies, they now use their highly data driven, easy to use and much less expensive mobile devices and the medical apps available. No matter whether you are interested in secure text messaging for healthcare or the best mobile medical apps that are available on the market today, here are a few important facts that you need to know before you decide to invest.

1. Health 2.0, which is a mobile health app, can be described as the use of software and mobile tools to promote collaboration and disseminate information between patients, their medical care providers and other interested parties.

2. The HIPAA Privacy Rule deals with both the use and disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI) held by entities such as health care clearinghouses, employer sponsored health plans, health insurers, and medical service providers that engage in certain transactions with patients

3. Examples to threats to ePHI in a bring your own device implementation include theft or loss of the mobile device; Improper disposal of the device; Interception of transmission of ePHI by an unauthorized person; lack of availability of ePHI to persons other than the mobile device user

4. There are 551 certified medical information software companies in the United States, and together they sell 1,137 software programs.

5. In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, better known as the Hitech Act, which provides 27 billion dollars in financial incentives for digital health record use.