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Mobile E-Health: Making the Case

Mobile E-Health: Making the Case
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Author(s): Norm Archer (McMaster University, Canada)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 12
Source title: Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Khalil Khoumbati (University of Sindh, Pakistan), Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Swansea University, UK), Aradhana Srivastava (Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), India)and Banita Lal (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-030-1.ch027

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Abstract

Health care is an industry with a diverse set of stakeholders: governments, private health care providers, medical practitioners (physicians, nurses, researchers, etc.), home health care providers and workers, and last but not least, clients/patients and their families. Overlapping and interacting environments include hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, primary care providers, homes, and so forth, involving acute, emergency, chronic, primary, and outpatient care. Patient transitions between these environments are often unnecessarily difficult due to an inability by providers to access pre-existing patient records. Mobile/wireless solutions can play an important role in supporting health care by providing applications that access health care records and reduce paperwork for clinical physicians, nurses, and other workers, community health care practitioners and their patients, or mobile chronically ill patients such as diabetics. This chapter makes the case for mobile health care and its solutions in the non-acute community health care environment, where critical issues include usability, adoption, interoperability, change management, risk mitigation, security and privacy, and return on investment. A proposed community health care application demonstrates how these issues are addressed.

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