Applications of m-Health and e-Health in Public Health Sector: The Challenges and Opportunities

While the use of mobile phone (MPs) has become commonplace in banking, railways, airlines and insurance etc., the health sector has been somewhat slow in adopting MP technologies into routine operations. Such use can benefit patients and providers alike by enhancing the access to health care.1 Mobile Health (m-H) is a recent term for “medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phone, patient monitoring devices and another wireless device”. For example, for chronic diseases, monitoring of blood pressure/blood sugar/ weight/electrocardiography (ECG) etc has already been tried. Read More