Jen, Wen-Yuan, and Ming-Chien Hung, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(1)
In an aging society, the issue of increased medical costs troubles both government agencies and families with aging parents. Many elderly people require long-term care, and the medical and financial problems associated with long-term care worry their entire family. Mobile healthcare service (MHS) has been widely applied by medical practitioners and researchers for years. Unfortunately, the elderly often fear both the technology and the cost its use incurs; hence, they seldom actively adopt MHS without the prompting and support of other family members. This study highlights this issue of long-term healthcare for the elderly and extracts the factors affecting their family’s intentions in adopting MHS.
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Published:
13 January 2010 |
Keyword(s): Acceptance, Adoption, Elderly, Mobile Healthcare Service, Taiwan
Oriol, Nancy et al, BMC Medicine, 7(1)
BACKGROUND:
Mobile health clinics provide an alternative portal into the healthcare system for the medically disenfranchised, that is, people who are underinsured, uninsured or who are otherwise outside of mainstream healthcare due to issues of trust, language, immigration status or simply location. Mobile health clinics as providers of last resort are an essential component of the healthcare safety net providing prevention, screening, and appropriate triage into mainstream services.
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Published:
2 June 2009 |
Keyword(s): mHealth, Mobile Healthcare Service, ROI, United States
Jen, Wen-Yuan, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 78(6)
Objectives
In Taiwan, campus health problems are placing more and more pressure on school-based health centers (SBHCs). Moreover, SBHCs have insufficient resources to actively provide follow-up healthcare for students and faculty found to be overweight, chronically ill, or at high risk. In order to improve the quality of SBHC healthcare, a project was begun to enhance the efficiency of campus healthcare services by employing web-based and cell phone-based services. This project employed the Mobile Automated Medical Alert (MAMA) system, which was designed especially for campus health center use. Before implementing the MAMA system, a focus group of healthcare related staff identified areas in which SBHC healthcare services might be improved by the system and created a questionnaire to measure student and faculty response to the proposed services. Modifications to the MAMA design and service offerings were made based upon these questionnaire results.
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Published:
June 2009 |
Keyword(s): mHealth, Mobile Healthcare Service, Obesity, Overweight, Taiwan
