Remote monitoring and mobile Apps
- Authors: Stranieri, Andrew , Edirisinghe, Ruwini , Wickramasinghe, Nilmini
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics Chapter 16 p. 297-318
- Full Text: false
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- Description: Recently, we have been witnessing an exponential growth in mobile health (mHealth) for health care. These solutions are all designed ultimate to enable the consumer to enjoy better health-care delivery and/or wellness. In order to understand this growing area, we believe it is necessary to develop a framework to analyse and evaluate these solutions. The purpose of this chapter is to proffer a suitable taxonomy to do this.
A taxonomy for mHealth
- Authors: Edirisinghe, Ruwini , Stranieri, Andrew , Wickramasinghe, Nilmini
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management Chapter 36 p. 596-615
- Full Text: false
- Reviewed:
- Description: Recently, we are witnessing an exponential growth in remote monitoring and mobile applications for healthcare. These solutions are all designed to ultimately enable the consumer to enjoy better healthcare delivery and /or wellness. In order to understand this growing area, we believe it is necessary to develop a framework to analyse and evaluate these solutions. The purpose of this chapter then is to offer a suitable taxonomy to systematically analyse and evaluate the existing solutions based on number of dimensions including technological, clinical, social, and economic.