Emerging mHealth innovations for patient self-management support

Katarzyna Wac; Homero Rivas

doi:10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454567

Emerging mHealth innovations for patient self-management support

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

mHealth solutions enable connected patients to take care of their health and care needs while 'on the move'. There exist a variety of emerging innovative technologies supporting them in their goal of symptoms tracking, medication adherence, or connecting with others, either peers suffering from the same disease or expert practitioners supervising the health status from away. In this article we first present and categorize some examples of such technologies for performance maximization, health maintenance, disease prevention and disease management. Then we discuss these technologies in terms of their design space supporting the patient's self-care, supporting the peer efforts in care, or supporting the patient-practitioner interaction. We discuss the technologies' strengths and weaknesses in terms of the barriers for adoption and scaling. We especially focus on discussion on the evidence of mHealth as an intervention, for its safety, efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness and provide some guidelines for future work areas to be completed, such that evidence can be provided with a sufficient power and emerging mHealth technologies can enable the support for patient health self-management.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom)
Number of pages	4
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2015
Pages	574-577
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-8325-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454567
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) - Boston, United States Duration: 14 Oct 2015 → 17 Oct 2015 Conference number: 17

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)
Number	17
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	14/10/2015 → 17/10/2015

Keywords

Diseases
Medical diagnostic imaging
Monitoring
Smart phones
Standards
Technological innovation
health
mobile computing
performance
prevention
self-care
wellness

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Wac, K & Rivas, H 2015, Emerging mHealth innovations for patient self-management support. in 2015 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom). IEEE, pp. 574-577, IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Boston, United States, 14/10/2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454567

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