SwePub
Sök i LIBRIS databas

  Utökad sökning

onr:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:kau-40062"
 

Sökning: onr:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:kau-40062" > Mobile health in em...

  • Iwaya, Leonardo HUniv Sao Paulo, Dept Comp & Digital Syst Engn, Sao Paulo, Brazil (författare)

Mobile health in emerging countries : a survey of research initiatives in Brazil.

  • Artikel/kapitelEngelska2013

Förlag, utgivningsår, omfång ...

  • Elsevier BV,2013
  • printrdacarrier

Nummerbeteckningar

  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:kau-40062
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-40062URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.01.003DOI

Kompletterande språkuppgifter

  • Språk:engelska
  • Sammanfattning på:engelska

Ingår i deldatabas

Klassifikation

  • Ämneskategori:ref swepub-contenttype
  • Ämneskategori:art swepub-publicationtype

Anmärkningar

  • OBJECTIVE: To conduct a comprehensive survey of mobile health (mHealth) research initiatives in Brazil, discussing current challenges, gaps, opportunities and tendencies.METHODS: Systematic review of publicly available electronic documents related to mHealth, including scientific publications, technical reports and descriptions of commercial products. Specifically, 42 projects are analyzed and classified according to their goals. This analysis considers aspects such as security features provided (if any), the health condition that are focus of attention, the main providers involved in the projects development and deployment, types of devices used, target users, where the projects are tested and/or deployed, among others.RESULTS: The study shows a large number (86%) of mHealth solutions focused on the following categories: health surveys, surveillance, patient records and monitoring. Meanwhile, treatment compliance, awareness raising and decision support systems are less explored. The main providers of solutions are the universities (56%) and health units (32%), with considerable cooperation between such entities. Most applications have physicians (55%) and Community Health Agents (CHAs) (33%) as targeted users, the latter being important elements in nation-wide governmental health programs. Projects focused on health managers, however, are a minority (5%). The majority of projects do not focus on specific diseases but rather general health (57%), although solutions for hearth conditions are reasonably numerous (21%). Finally, the lack of security mechanisms in the majority of the surveyed solutions (52%) may hinder their deployment in the field due to the lack of compliance with general regulations for medical data handling.CONCLUSION: There are currently many mHealth initiatives in Brazil, but some areas have not been much explored, such as solutions for treatment compliance and awareness raising, as well as decision support systems. Another research trend worth exploring refers to creating interoperable security mechanisms, especially for widely explored mHealth categories such as health surveys, patient records and monitoring. Challenges for the expansion of mHealth solutions, both in number and coverage, include the further involvement of health managers in the deployment of such solutions and in coordinating efforts among health and research institutions interested in the mHealth trend, possibly exploring the widespread presence of CHAs around the country as users of such technology.

Ämnesord och genrebeteckningar

Biuppslag (personer, institutioner, konferenser, titlar ...)

  • Gomes, M A LUniv Sao Paulo, Dept Comp & Digital Syst Engn, Sao Paulo, Brazil (författare)
  • Simplício, M AUniv Sao Paulo, Dept Comp & Digital Syst Engn, Sao Paulo, Brazil (författare)
  • Carvalho, T C M BUniv Sao Paulo, Dept Comp & Digital Syst Engn, Sao Paulo, Brazil (författare)
  • Dominicini, C KDepartment of Computer and Digital Systems Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil (författare)
  • Sakuragui, R R MUniv Sao Paulo, Dept Comp & Digital Syst Engn, Sao Paulo, Brazil (författare)
  • Rebelo, M SUniv Sao Paulo, Sch Med, Heart Inst InCor, Sao Paulo, Brazil (författare)
  • Gutierrez, M AUniv Sao Paulo, Sch Med, Heart Inst InCor, Sao Paulo, Brazil (författare)
  • Näslund, MEricsson Res, Stockholm, Sweden (författare)
  • Håkansson, PEricsson Res, Stockholm, Sweden (författare)
  • Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Comp & Digital Syst Engn, Sao Paulo, BrazilDepartment of Computer and Digital Systems Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil (creator_code:org_t)

Sammanhörande titlar

  • Ingår i:International Journal of Medical Informatics: Elsevier BV82:5, s. 283-2981386-50561872-8243

Internetlänk

Hitta via bibliotek

Till lärosätets databas

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.

 
pil uppåt Stäng

Kopiera och spara länken för att återkomma till aktuell vy