Innovative mHealth Ecosystems

Abstract

In recent years the term m-health is becoming more familiar. The termmHealth used for the practice of medicine and health services throughmobile devices. Mobile devices (smartphone, tablet, PDA, etc) areadopted by people and integrated into their everyday lives. Today theavailable m-health applications are varied and include the use of mobiledevices for the collection of clinical data, providing healthcareinformation to healthcare professionals, researchers and patients, andfor real-time monitoring of the patient vital signs and direct provisionof care. There are applications that support patients easily to measurethe heart rate, the level of blood glucose, the blood pressure or bodytemperature, to take certain reminders for medications andrecommendations for their fitness and nutrition. The m-health technologyis not intended to replace the work of healthcare professionals butconsidered to be a useful support tool for the management and provisionof health care at the primary level. The m-health is an emerging andrapidly developing field, which has the potential to influence thetransformation of the health and improve the quality and effectiveness.