In the Spotlight: Health Information Systems— $\\vskip -48pt$ Mainstreaming mHealth $\\hfill$

Author

Saranummi, Niilo

Author_Institution

VTT Tech. Res. Centre of Finalnd, Tampere, Finland

Volume

4

fYear

2011

fDate

7/3/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

19

Abstract

What is mHealth? If we look at the use of information technology in healthcare, we´ll notice two intertwined development trends: connectivity and intelligent applications. The over arching goal has been to support and enable the delivery of health services and as a part of this to create a life-long electronic health record for patients. The emergence of local area networks and later internet provided new means for connectivity and enabled telemedicine and remote patient monitoring applications.

Keywords

Internet; local area networks; medical computing; medical information systems; patient monitoring; telemedicine; health information systems; health services delivery; internet; life-long electronic health record; local area networks; mhealth; remote patient monitoring applications; telemedicine; Health information management; Medical services; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Technological innovation; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Cellular Phone; Electronic Health Records; Humans; Telemedicine; Wireless Technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Reviews in

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1937-3333

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/RBME.2011.2176998

Filename

6086570

In the Spotlight: Health Information Systems— Mainstreaming mHealth

Saranummi, Niilo

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In the Spotlight: Health Information Systems— $\\vskip -48pt$ Mainstreaming mHealth $\\hfill$