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In the Spotlight: Health Information Systems— 
Mainstreaming mHealth 
In the Spotlight: Health Information Systems—
What is mHealth? If we look at the use of information technology in healthcare, we'll notice two intertwined development trends: connectivity and intelligent applications. The over arching goal has been to support and enable the delivery of health services and as a part of this to create a life-long electronic health record for patients. The emergence of local area networks and later internet provided new means for connectivity and enabled telemedicine and remote patient monitoring applications.
Published in:
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Reviews in
(Volume:4
)
Date of Publication: 2011
- Page(s):
- 17 - 19
- ISSN :
- 1937-3333
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 12470276
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/RBME.2011.2176998
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Publication :
- 22 November 2011
- Date of Current Version :
- 12 January 2012
- Issue Date :
- 2011
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Society [Technical Co-Sponsor]
- PubMed ID :
- 22273787
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