In recent years, with the popularity of 3G services and the integration of information and communication technology, the development of mobile health provides an opportunity for the development of mobile medical services. Mobile medicine has been widely used in developed countries, including disease surveillance, monitoring, diagnosis and treatment, and health management. In Europe, the United States, Japan, Taiwan and other countries and regions, mobile medical applications have entered the stage of fine service.

In addition, the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunication Union and jointly launched "mobile health plan, designed to help mobile phone short message, and the mobile application technology and encourage governments and relevant institutions, for smoking, alcohol, non communicable diseases caused by unhealthy diet and lack of exercise, the use of mobile phone technology to disseminate these unhealthy lifestyles may bring harm, help countries to fight non communicable diseases.

In the UK, mobile health strategy clearly has a broad market prospects. British national health service system (NHS) 2011 statistics show that the current use of mobile devices for mobile users to access the site by 3000 people per month over the past year to 155000. Mobile devices have become the necessities of the consumer at a very rapid pace, and for both doctors and patients have brought significant benefits.

According to the New York times forecast, in 2015 the use of mobile medical services users will reach 500 million people, more than 20% of American doctors have Ipad, and it is applied to the daily diagnosis and treatment of patients. GSMA (Global Mobile Communications Systems Association) predicts that by 2017, the development of the global mobile healthcare market will bring $23 billion in revenue. At present, world 62 percent of physicians use the tablet, 50% of the doctors would will be flat for clinical diagnosis, 71% of the nurses in work in the use of smart phones, mobile terminal in medical staff has reached certain popularity.

In Japan, the construction of mobile medical system has been issued. First is to realize the digital home health medical equipment. With NFC (near field communication technology) and smart phones, medical devices intelligent data management App can help doctors get patient information. Such as nearly 3 months of weight change, blood pressure changes, etc..

Secondly, the cloud computing model is used to establish the personal medical database. Individuals can view the medical information stored in the cloud at any time and at any time through the network. Hospitals are no longer save medical data of the patients, but can the patients agreed to see the cloud save medical information and add new content, individuals can always see the health data via mobile devices.