Abstract
Mobile health: new technologies, new modes and new era.
Highlights
In the past decade, tremendous developments have been made in mobile communicating technologies, such as fourth generation communication, satellite communication, and wireless network, which, when combined with healthcare, promoted the development of mobile health
Because of the increase in the number of sub-health population, the aging of the population, and early onset of chronic diseases, more and more of the population attention was paid to mhealth that has gotten a solid foundation for numerous developments of mobile communication devices, such as smart phones and, especially, wearable devices
At the end of 2010, more than 200 million mhealth applications were downloaded and about 70% of worldwide citizens were interested in access to, at least, one mhealth application
Summary
Tremendous developments have been made in mobile communicating technologies, such as fourth generation communication, satellite communication, and wireless network, which, when combined with healthcare, promoted the development of mobile health (mhealth). There are two modes of mhealth: one is B2B mode which targets medical care personnel, and the other is B2C mode which targets patients. The mhealth applications offer unique opportunities for almost every part of healthcare in pre-, in- and post-hospital periods, including monitoring progress, receiving personalized prompts and support, providing education materials, collecting ecologic data, self-management interventions, and teleconsultaion when and where they are needed[1].
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