Mobile Health, mHealth
Summary
Mobile Health, mHealth: The use of mobile computing, mobile apps and potentially in combination with health sensors has powerful potential to benefit health consumers in the setting of their daily lives with particular application to chronic disease care and prevention, healthy living, public health intervention, early detection and health emergency detection and response.
Supervisor(s)
Research Location
Health Systems and Global Populations Research Group
Program Type
Masters/PHD
Synopsis
The use of mobile computing, mobile apps and potentially in combination with health sensors has powerful potential to benefit health consumers in the setting of their daily lives with particular application to chronic disease care and prevention, healthy living, public health intervention, early detection and health emergency response. Such a research field can also be referred to as mobile health or mhealth. The benefit of mobile computing is that it can provide information, reminders and communications with healthcare providers where necessary on an always connected basis to health consumers. Mobile app development for healthcare and lifestyle applications is seeing rapid growth. Chronic disease accounts for over 70% of health system costs and over 80% of deaths, and at the same time preventing chronic disease can be importantly tackled via lifestyle changes. Hence the importance of the innovative use of mobile computing, mobile apps on smartphones and potentially combined with health sensors and wireless sensor networks. Social media or social networks, accessed via mobile devices is one capability extension of this field. This field can also borrow from and extend a number of research sub-fields: pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, persuasive computing, body area networks, wireless sensor networks and personalized health education.
Additional Information
Available to Honours students. Professor Steele is Vice Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE http://www.sigmobile.org/
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Keywords
mhealth, sensors, persuasive technology, ubiquitous computing, healthcare, chronic disease, healthy living, Mobile computing, Pervasive computing, eHealth
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 1371
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