Abstract
In recent years the term m-health is becoming more familiar. The term mHealth used for the practice of medicine and health services through mobile devices. Mobile devices (smartphone, tablet, PDA, etc) are adopted by people and integrated into their everyday lives. Today the available m-health applications are varied and include the use of mobile devices for the collection of clinical data, providing healthcare information to healthcare professionals, researchers and patients, and for real-time monitoring of the patient vital signs and direct provision of care. There are applications that support patients easily to measure the heart rate, the level of blood glucose, the blood pressure or body temperature, to take certain reminders for medications and recommendations for their fitness and nutrition. The m-health technology is not intended to replace the work of healthcare professionals but considered to be a useful support tool for the management and provision of health care at the primary level. The m-health is an emerging and rapidly developing field, which has the potential to influence the transformation of the health and improve the quality and effectiveness.
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Tsoromokos, D., Dermatis, Z., Gozadinos, F., Lazakidou, A.A. (2016). Innovative mHealth Ecosystems. In: Lazakidou, A., Zimeras, S., Iliopoulou, D., Koutsouris, DD. (eds) mHealth Ecosystems and Social Networks in Healthcare. Annals of Information Systems, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23341-3_4
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