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Uptake of Mobile ICT Health Services: Has the Time Come to become Commodity?

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Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (Mobilight 2009)

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Personalized healthcare (pHealth) is a collective term aiming to reflect all modes of patient-centric healthcare delivery via advanced technology means. Personalized health involves the utilization of micro and nanotechnology advances, molecular biology, implantable sensors, textile innovations and mobile information & communication technology (mICT) to create individualized monitoring and treatment plans. pHealth proactively endorses the sense of “one-to-one” communication to elevate healthcare delivery, optimize patient services and ensure seamless from the patient point of view information exchange. Patient awareness, policy planning and technology progress are favoring phealth market penetration, while financing issues, political commitment, and unavailability of technology infrastructures are fundamentally prohibiting its expansion. This paper explores the drivers and barriers to the adoption of phealth delivery schemes, including a discussion on interoperability issues. It also presents case study results.

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  1. University of Western Macedonia, Greece

    Pantelis A. Angelidis

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  1. University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Fabrizio Granelli

  2. Information and Communication Systems Security Laboratory, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, 83200, Karlovasse, Samos, Greece

    Charalabos Skianis

  3. University of Macedonia, Loggou-Tourpali, 59200, Naousa, Greece

    Periklis Chatzimisios

  4. University of Alabama, 35487-0290, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Yang Xiao

  5. Nokia Siemens Networks, St. Martin Straße 76, 81541, Munich, Germany

    Simone Redana

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Angelidis, P.A. (2009). Uptake of Mobile ICT Health Services: Has the Time Come to become Commodity?. In: Granelli, F., Skianis, C., Chatzimisios, P., Xiao, Y., Redana, S. (eds) Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. Mobilight 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_28

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