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This book defines the phenomenon of mHealth and its evolution, explaining why an understanding of mHealth is critical for decision makers, entrepreneurs, and policy analysts who are pivotal to developing products that meet the collaborative health information needs of consumers and providers in a competitive and rapidly-changing environment. The book examines trends in mHealth and discusses how mHealth technologies offer opportunities for innovators and entrepreneurs, those who often are industry first-movers with regard to technology advancement. It also explores the changing dynamics and relationships among physicians, patients, insurers, regulators, managers, administrators, caregivers, and others involved in the delivery of health services. The primary focus is on the ways in which mHealth technologies are revising and reshaping healthcare delivery systems in the United States and globally, and how those changes are expected to change the ways in which the business of healthcare is conducted. mHealth: Transforming Healthcare consists of nine chapters that addresses key content areas, including history (to the extent that dynamic technologies have a history), projection of immediate evolution, and consistent issues associated with health technology, such as security and information privacy, and government and industry regulation. A major point of discussion addressed is whether mHealth is a transient group of products and a passing patient encounter approach, or if it is the way much of our health care will be delivered in future years with incremental evolution to achieve sustainable innovation of health technologies

Introduction to mHealth -- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of mHealth -- Intellectual property rights and protections -- Information technology matters -- State licensing and scope of practice laws -- Reimbursement -- Privacy and mHealth

Both electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth) are becoming prominent components of healthcare. In order for healthcare electronic services to be safe and effective and add genuine value to the system, the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) believes that these should be developed in close collaboration with healthcare professionals including hospital pharmacists, and patients. Consequently, the EAHP calls in its position paper upon national governments and health systems across Europe to work towards (1) systematic and European Union-wide achievement of electronic prescribing, administration and use of electronic medical records; (2) ensuring barcoding of medicines to the single units in primary packages to enable more widespread take-up of bedside scanning in European hospitals, thus improving patient safety; (3) appropriate regulatory oversight mechanisms for mHealth applications to ensure that they have a positive impact and adequately protect patient data; (4) provision of appropriate eHealth/mHealth training opportunities to healthcare professionals and promotion of digital health literacy; and (5) involvement of hospital pharmacists in the design, specification of parameters and evaluation of information and communication technology within the medicines processes.

This book proposes a radically different anthropological approach to the development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly growing sector in healthcare. An Anthropological Approach to mHealth is based on ten 16-month ethnographies in settings across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America that showed how conventional health apps may be irrelevant particularly for older people. Instead, the studies found that many people use their mobile and smartphones for health purposes to a surprising extent. They take the communicative apps they have become comfortable with, such as LINE, WeChat and WhatsApp, and are highly creative in turning them into their own health apps. These are the practices from which this book seeks to learn, in what we call a 'smart-from-below' approach. This body of research also provided many additional insights, including the consequences of googling for health information, the role of the smartphone in specific settings such as an oncology clinic in Chile or tele-psychotherapy in Uganda, and the lessons learnt during Covid-19 around the problems in self-tracking. Overall, the authors show how an anthropological approach situated in the observation of everyday life can be the foundation for an alternative but highly promising perspective on the future of mHealth.

Health-focused smartphone applications and internet of things (IoT) devices such as wearable fitness trackers (together, "mHealth"), offer a chance to monitor and manage health during the time spent away from a doctor. Unfortunately for consumers, much of personal health data generated by these devices and applications is critically unprotected by existing privacy laws in the United States. Due to the inadequacy of the current regulatory framework, there remain five crucial gaps of oversight and protection which plague many of these health-focused apps and devices: (A) Difference in Individuals' Access Rights; (B) Difference in Re-Use of Data by Third Parties; (C) Difference in Security Standards Applicable to Data Holders and Users; (D) Differences in Understanding of Terminology About Privacy and Security Protections; and (E) Inadequate Collection, Use, and Disclosure Limitations. This Note explores these oversight gaps and analyzes whether proposed and emerging solutions can meet this fundamental regulatory need. These solutions range from sweeping industry-agnostic privacy legislation to proposals targeted to this specific problem in mHealth. Overall, this Note will weigh the costs and benefits of these options as they are currently understood.

The use of mobile devices in telemedicine contributes to providing more effective and efficient remote healthcare in rural areas improving patients' life style and medical quality of service in this setting. The idea of creating mobile applications for this scenario led the authors to face important sociotechnical challenges in terms of innovation and design for resource-constrained environments. In this paper the authors present the outcomes of MANTRA (Mobile ANticoagulant TheRApy) Project developed for and evaluated in Venezuela. Through the evaluation of this project under those settings the authors developed an approach to mHealth in the remote management of chronic diseases by supporting the communication between doctors.

The recent concept of mHealt is present every day in our daily practice; however, what do we know about medical apps? This article tries to resume the current legislation about medical apps, no matter they´re considered medical devices or digital files, and as well to propose a safe environment for the use of MHealth. ; El concepto reciente de mHealth está cada vez más presente en nuestra práctica laboral, sin embargo, ¿qué sabemos sobre las aplicaciones médicas? Este artículo, trata de resumir la normativa actual sobre las aplicaciones médicas tanto si se consideran dispositivos médicos o documentos digitales y a la vez proponer un entorno seguro para el uso del mHealth.

Avec près de sept milliards d'usagers « mobile » en 2014, le téléphone portable devient la technologie d'information et de communication la plus utilisée dans le monde. Du « dossier patient » mobile à l'envoi dématérialisé de données cliniques par SMS, ces dispositifs se développent de manière croissante dans un contexte de réduction des ressources et des dépenses de santé, mais aussi d'implication croissante des patients. Si l'information de santé sur internet a donné lieu à de nombreux travaux, l'utilisation du téléphone portable, appelée « mHealth » ou « mSanté », reste un champ à défricher.

Why did we write a book on mobile health (mHealth)? Because we believe it is an essential tool in the disruptive trans formation required to change our healthcare system from one that is driven by volume to one that is sustained on value. Although medicine, with its powerful imaging machines, robotic surgeons, and electronic monitors and devices, is one of the most technology -heavy industries in the world, it lags far behind most other industries when it comes to harnessing the power of information technology. This is particularly true when it comes to using that technology to enhance the patient experience, track and improve quality, and manage and reduce costs. Our work on this book convinces us that coupling mHealth to the twin engines of electronic health records and healthcare reform is vital if we are to experience the kind of fundamental changes in healthcare delivery required in the United States.

"Sustainability in Healthcare: Advances in mHealth AI and Robotics" explores sustainable methods in the healthcare industry, focusing on rural and community healthcare improvement, the use of robots for sustainability, and the implementation of AI in healthcare. It also explores additive manufacturing, mobile health, biomedical engineering, and telemedicine's role in healthcare sustainability management. The book also discusses the ethical concerns, environmental, social, and economic implications of sustainability in healthcare supply chain management and pandemic management

The South African health care system, despite recording some significant improvements since independence, still faces a number of health challenges. Mobile technologies application in health care, also known as mHealth, has been shown as feasible in helping alleviate some of South Africa's disease burden and cause improvements in health care outcomes. Although some feasibility studies have shown the potentials of mHealth, there is a paucity of literature establishing clear outcomes of mHealth interventions in South Africa. This study, therefore, is a systematic review of literature that was carried out to evaluate empirical evidence on the effect of mHealth interventions on health outcomes in South Africa. Academic databases such as PubMed, ScienceDirect, EBSCOhost, and Scopus were searched for empirical studies relating to mHealth interventions in South Africa carried out between 2011 and March 2016. The search, after the screening, yielded 40 papers, of which six randomized controlled studies were eligible for review by the PRISMA guideline. Findings revealed that mHealth interventions using mobile phones and text messages had been targeted at improving treatment adherence and eliciting behavioral actions in patients. However, while mHealth portends the potential to improve health outcomes and possibly transform the health system, there was no sufficient evidence to confirm the effect of the mHealth interventions on improved health outcomes. The study concludes that there is a need for more intervention studies to show evidence of the impact of mHealth interventions on health outcomes and health care delivery processes in South Africa.