DocumentCode
71936
Title
Mobile Health: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Transdisciplinary Research
Author
Kumar, Sudhakar ; Nilsen, Wendy ; Pavel, Misha ; Srivastava, M.
Volume
46
Issue
1
fYear
2013
fDate
Jan. 2013
Firstpage
28
Lastpage
35
Abstract
Mobile health (mHealth) seeks to improve individuals´ health and well-being by continuously monitoring their status, rapidly diagnosing medical conditions, recognizing behaviors, and delivering just-in-time interventions, all in the user´s natural mobile environment. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/o2mieSywutY is an audio interview in which Santosh Kumar, Wendy Nilsen, and Mani Srivastava discuss the path toward realizing mobile health systems.
Keywords
health care; medical computing; mobile computing; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; health monitoring; healthcare; just-in-time intervention; m-health; medical condition diagnosis; mobile health system; transdisciplinary research; user natural mobile environment; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Medical services; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Sensors; computing in medicine; mHealth; regulation; sensor networks;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MC.2012.392
Filename
6357165
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