Contextual barriers to mobile health technology in African countries: a perspective piece
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2015-01
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O'Connor, Yvonne
O'Donoghue, John
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Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine Inc.
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Abstract
On a global scale, healthcare practitioners are now beginning to move from traditional desktop-based computer technologies towards mobile computing environments[1]. Consequently, such environments have received immense attention from both academia and industry, in order to explore these promising opportunities, apparent limitations, and implications for both theory and practice[2]. The application of mobile IT within a medical context, referred to as mobile health or mHealth, has revolutionised the delivery of healthcare services as mobile technologies offer the potential of retrieving, modifying and entering patient-related data/information at the point-of-care. As a component of the larger health informatics domain mHealth may be referred as all portable computing devices (e.g. mobile phones, mobile clinical assistants and medical sensors) used in a healthcare context to support the delivery of healthcare services.
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Global healthcare , mHealth , Mobile health , Health informatics , eHealth initiatives , Africa , Healthcare
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O'Connor, Y. and O'Donoghue, J. (2015) 'Contextual Barriers to Mobile Health Technology in African Countries: A Perspective Piece', Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine, JMTM, 4(1), pp. 31-34. doi: 10.7309/jmtm.4.1.7
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