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Health care is undergoing a true revolution towards new paradigms for all actors involved, first of all the scientific and clinical side, where traditional reactive approach based on symptoms and disease management is progressively giving way to a systemic approach oriented to proactive, preventive and personalised medicine. In this revolutionary scenario, technological innovation and, in particular, ICT and mobile health play the role of key enablers.
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Guarneri, M.R., Sironi, R., Perego, P. (2019). Introduction. In: Andreoni, G., Perego, P., Frumento, E. (eds) m_Health Current and Future Applications. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02182-5_1
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