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Designing and Deploying Mobile Health Interventions

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This chapter focuses on the exciting field of mobile devices in healthcare. We describe the variety of mobile devices used in healthcare and discuss considerations researchers, designers, software developers, and informaticians need to take into account when designing and deploying these devices in the healthcare environment. We examine both the use of mobile devices for healthcare providers and consumers. We cover the broad range of devices, ranging from stand alone devices in a largely historical perspective, through smartphones and tablets, and some slightly future leaning wearable devices. Lastly, we discuss things to consider when studying the use of mobile devices in the healthcare environment.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 250 Lincoln Tower, 1800 Canon Drive, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Albert M. Lai Ph.D.

  2. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, 919 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47408, USA

    Katie A. Siek Ph.D.

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  1. Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Vimla L. Patel

  2. Columbia University, Weill Cornell College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Vimla L. Patel

  3. Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

    Vimla L. Patel  & David R. Kaufman  & 

  4. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

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  5. The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

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Lai, A.M., Siek, K.A. (2015). Designing and Deploying Mobile Health Interventions. In: Patel, V.L., Kannampallil, T.G., Kaufman, D.R. (eds) Cognitive Informatics for Biomedicine. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17272-9_13

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