Title: A review of mobile health applications and its use phases

Authors: Rajesh R. Pai; Sreejith Alathur

Addresses: Department of Humanities and Management, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, India ' School of Management, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India

Abstract: The use of mobile and wireless devices in healthcare plays a vital role in transforming health service delivery for patients and physicians across the globe. These devices are mainly driven because of rising healthcare costs and demand from the patients for diagnosing, treatment and care. Initiatives from the government and private companies have already started for developing mobile health interventions in the low resource setting areas. Yet, there has been less adequate reviews about mobile health applications across patients' use-phases. This paper provides a comprehensive review of mobile health applications across patients' use-phases. It reviews the most significant research articles and proposes variables that can be used for testing its significance among the people of low- and medium-income countries. It also emphasises the challenges involved in the successful deployment of mobile health applications which help in identifying the current state of research thereby establishing an agenda for future research direction.

Keywords: healthcare; health information technology; mobile health; mobile health challenges; patients' use-phases.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2021.117123

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 2021 Vol.11 No.3, pp.187 - 207

Accepted: 13 Nov 2020
Published online: 18 Aug 2021 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article