Mobile Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

Author

Shieh, Yao Y. ; Tsai, Fong Y. ; Arash ; Wang, Michael D. ; Lin, Chao-Ming C.

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, Irvine

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 July 2007

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

50

Abstract

The healthcare crisis in the US has caught national attention because of its high percentage of GDP spending. Healthcare reform has become a heated topic of discussion. Its key lies in quality of care, the foundation of which is information. Mobile- healthcare has the potential to greatly improve the quality of healthcare. It encompasses the realm of healthcare activities empowered by the whole spectrum of computer, communication and information technologies. The challenges of the current healthcare landscape and potential solutions offered by m-healthcare are presented in four distinct yet related domains: service, technology, finance and organization. This paper addresses healthcare as a whole, with special remarks directed exclusively to the radiology subspecialty due to its unique requirements of large bandwidth for transferring image data and exacting screen size for image display.

Keywords

health care; radiology; image data transfer; image display screen size; mobile healthcare; radiology subspecialty; Biomedical imaging; Costs; Data acquisition; Decision making; Economic indicators; Electrocardiography; Information technology; Medical services; Mobile communication; Radiology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Mobile Business, 2007. ICMB 2007. International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2803-1

Electronic_ISBN

0-7695-2803-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMB.2007.46

Filename

4278593