Title :
Mobile Health: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Transdisciplinary Research
Author :
Kumar, Sudhakar ; Nilsen, Wendy ; Pavel, Misha ; Srivastava, M.
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;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2012.392
