The Journal of mHealth Vol 1 Issue 2 (Apr 2014) | Page 8

mHealth...What Does it Really Mean?
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as to promote the patient’s understanding of the overall system.

DATA-DRIVEN
Any system that operates in the healthcare sector needs to be underlined by a
foundation of quality, proven data that
is appropriate to drive the technological
solution. Data in healthcare is growing
at an exponential rate, and with every

new system comes more information
that needs to be processed, referenced
and catalogued. Providing access to this
information in a relevant manner, or
processing the data to determine quantified insights, should be paramount in
the delivery of mhealth solutions.

ical and care structures. Intuitive systems help to ensure that only the most
effective solutions are implemented,
and that once deployed they do not
require significant levels of supervision
nor input from the operator, thereby
not placing additional administrative
burdens upon healthcare professionals. Equally, for a patient an mhealth
solution needs to be suitably ‘smart’
in order to carry out the required tasks
with minimal intervention from the
user.

INTUITIVE (SMART)
mHealth and digital health solutions
need to perform tasks in a way that it
easily assimilated with the existing med-

Digital Living
Augmented
Reality
Wearables

3D Printing

Big Data

Remote
Monitoring

mHealth

Patient
Perspectives
Telehealth

Telecare
Patient Care
Bio Sensors
Health 3.0

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