Abstract
Mobile phone text messaging (Short Message Service, SMS) has proved to be a powerful tool for many tasks in health care. It is affordable and instant way for communication between health care personnel and patients, enabling different kinds of control and monitoring applications, improving adherence in self-management of chronic diseases or healthy lifestyle programs etc. However, it is not only textual data that can be transmitted by mobile phone messaging. Multimedia Message Service (MMS) makes it possible to send images, video sequences and audio attached to the message. This has significant potential in health care applications, and an amount of research has been made recently on this field. In this paper, we review the recent development in the mobile phone messaging in health care. Special attention has been paid in the discussion of the current state of the art of text messaging as well as the potentiality of multimedia data that can be utilized by means of multimedia messaging.
Highlights
Mobile computing and communication technology interventions for improving health care and health service outcomes, referred as M-health [1] are used nowadays on a wide range from data collection and information transmission to supporting health behavior change
Text messaging is a form of communication that is available for practically everyone in western world, and rapidly gaining popularity in developing countries
It is by far the only form mobile communication that can be used for sending information instantly for multiple receivers so that the sender can be sure that the message will be notified
Summary
Mobile computing and communication technology interventions for improving health care and health service outcomes, referred as M-health [1] are used nowadays on a wide range from data collection and information transmission to supporting health behavior change. Provided that the cost of the text message is very low and it is available to practically everyone, it has been found useful to employ the text messaging in many routine-like health care applications Typical examples of these application areas are e.g. different kinds of reminders and instructions, reporting of laboratory test results or home measurements, remote controlling and monitoring etc. By using this kind of communication, it is possible to save resources by e.g. avoiding unnecessary hospital visits and phone calls, and zmake health care process more efficient by automatically sending, receiving, storing and processing the patient data
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