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This chapter is focused on discussions of a number of issues and challenges associated with the underlying infrastructure of mHealth, including: regulation of medical devices/smartphones, network security and privacy, interoperability, scalability, ubiquity, data management and ownership, remote monitoring, and the importance of end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) for full reliance on mHealth technology in medicine.
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Kedar, M. (2015). mHealth over "Medical Grade" High Quality of Service Mobile Networks. In: Adibi, S. (eds) Mobile Health. Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12817-7_41
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