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Cafazzo JA et al, J Med Internet Res, 14(3)
BACKGROUND
The use of mHealth apps has shown improved health outcomes in adult populations with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, this has not been shown in the adolescent type 1 population, despite their predisposition to the use of technology. We hypothesized that a more tailored approach and a strong adherence mechanism is needed for this group.
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8 May 2012 |
Keyword(s): Adolescent, Canada, Cellular Phone, Chronic Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, mHealth, Self Care, Self Management
BACKGROUND
Previous trials of telemonitoring for heart failure management have reported inconsistent results, largely due to diverse intervention and study designs. Mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous and economical, but the feasibility and efficacy of a mobile phone-based telemonitoring system have not been determined.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this trial was to investigate the effects of a mobile phone-based telemonitoring system on heart failure management and outcomes.
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16 February 2012 |
Keyword(s): Canada, Cellular Phone, Heart Failure, Patient Monitoring, Randomized Controlled Trials, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Seto E et al, J Med Internet Res, 14(1)
Background:
Previous trials of heart failure telemonitoring systems have produced inconsistent findings, largely due to diverse interventions and study designs.
Objectives:
The objectives of this study are (1) to provide in-depth insight into the effects of telemonitoring on self-care and clinical management, and (2) to determine the features that enable successful heart failure telemonitoring.
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10 February 2012 |
Keyword(s): Canada, Cellular Phone, Heart Failure, Self Care, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Bellina L, Missoni E. Health and Technology, 2011
As previously demonstrated, m-phones can be easily used, without any adapter, to photograph and send images from a microscope. The objective of the current study was to test the appropriateness and educational potential of this mobile diagnosis approach with health workers in limited-resource settings, such as health units in Uganda, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. A total of 61 lab technicians were trained in basic lab skills and in using the m-phone to capture microscopic images and send them to distant Reference Centers for a second opinion. Structured pre-test interviews were used to define parameters such as health workers’ sex and age, duty station, schooling, experience in the laboratory, access to internet and availability to and use of m-phones. Images from the microscope were also uploaded on the available computers and shared on the screen to facilitate group discussions and comparisons with reference images.
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8 October 2011 |
Keyword(s): Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cellular Phone, Diagnosis, Education, mHealth, Microscope, Uganda
Quinn CC et al, Diabetes Care, 2011
OBJECTIVE
To test whether adding mobile application coaching and patient/provider web portals to community primary care compared with standard diabetes management would reduce glycated hemoglobin levels in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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25 July 2011 |
Keyword(s): Cellular Phone, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, mHealth, United States
Furber GV et al, The Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(1)
BACKGROUND
Mobile phones play a central role in the lives of young people and are being increasingly recognized as valuable tools in health care. However, there is a paucity of studies exploring the use of mobile phones in youth outreach mental health services. Our outreach team’s experience is that enabling youth to access their therapist directly through mobile phone improves engagement and retention, and short message service (SMS) in particular, is a useful tool for coordinating appointments. The purpose of this study was to audit the content of SMS exchanges between therapists and clients and to investigate the extent of inappropriate SMS use.
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January 2011 |
Keyword(s): Adolescents, Australia, Cellular Phone, Mental Health, mHealth, Physician-Patient Relationship, SMS
Estrin D, Sim I. Science, 330(6005)
Chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, and obesity account for 46% of global disease burden. The traditional model of episodic care in clinic and hospital-based settings is suboptimal for improving chronic disease outcomes. Mobile communication devices, in conjunction with Internet and social media, present opportunities to enhance disease prevention and management by extending health interventions beyond the reach of traditional care—an approach referred to as mHealth.
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5 November 2010 |
Keyword(s): Cellular Phone, Innovation, Internet, Medical Informatics, mHealth, Open architecture, Software, Telemedicine, United States
Busis N. Neurologic Clinics, 28(2)
Smartphones make mobile computing at point of care practical. Smartphones can think, sync, and link. Built-in and user-installed applications facilitate communications between neurologists and their medical colleagues and patients and augment data acquisition and processing in the core medical information domains of patient data, clinical decision support, and practice management.
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May 2010 |
Keyword(s): Cellular Phone, Communication, mHealth, Neurology, Smart Phone, Telemedicine
Piette JD et al, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(6)
BACKGROUND
Although interactive voice response (IVR) calls can be an effective tool for chronic disease management, many regions of the world lack the infrastructure to provide these services. PURPOSE This study evaluated the feasibility and potential impact of an IVR program using a cloud-computing model to improve diabetes management in Honduras.
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June 2011 |
Keyword(s): Cellular Phone, Chronic Diseases, Cloud Computing, Diabetes Mellitus, Disease Management, Honduras, Interactive voice response (IVR), mHealth, Self Care
Juzang I et al, J Telemed Telecare, 17(3)
We explored the feasibility of engaging young black men in a 12-week text messaging programme about HIV prevention. There were two non-randomized groups of 30 young men each. The participants were aged 16-20 years, self-identifying as black or African-American, sexually active, who owned a mobile phone and lived in Philadelphia. They received three text messages per week for 12 weeks. People in the intervention group received text messages about HIV prevention, while those in the control group received text messages about nutrition.
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1 April 2011 |
Keyword(s): Behavior, Cellular Phone, HIV, mHealth, SMS, United States
Rotheram-Borus M-J et al, Trials, 12
BACKGROUND
Pregnant women living with HIV (WLH) face daily challenges maintaining their own and their babies’ health and mental health. Standard Prevention of Maternal to Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs are not designed to address these challenges.
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4 January 2011 |
Keyword(s): Cellular Phone, HIV, mHealth, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, South-Africa
Leong KC et al, Family Practice, 23(6)
BACKGROUND
Non-attendance is common in primary care and previous studies have reported that reminders were useful in reducing broken appointments.
OBJECTIVE
To determine the effectiveness of a text messaging reminder in improving attendance in primary care. DESIGN Multicentre three-arm randomized controlled trial.
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Published:
31 December 1969 |
Keyword(s): Appointments, Cellular Phone, Malaysia, Primary Care, Reminder Systems, SMS
Seto E et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(4)
BACKGROUND
Mobile phone-based remote patient monitoring systems have been proposed for heart failure management because they are relatively inexpensive and enable patients to be monitored anywhere. However, little is known about whether patients and their health care providers are willing and able to use this technology.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of our study was to assess the attitudes of heart failure patients and their health care providers from a heart function clinic in a large urban teaching hospital toward the use of mobile phone-based remote monitoring.
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29 November 2010 |
Keyword(s): Attitude, Canada, Cellular Phone, Heart Failure, mHealth, Telemonitoring
Mahmud N et al, Technology and Health Care, 18(2)
Healthcare delivery in the rural developing world is limited by a severe shortage of health workers as well as profound communicative and geographic barriers. Understaffed hospitals are forced to provide care for patients that reside at a great distance from the institutions themselves, sometimes more than 100 miles away. Community health workers (CHWs), volunteers from local villages, have been integral in bridging this patient-physician gap, but still lose enormous of amounts of time in transit between hospital and village.
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Published:
10 May 2010 |
Keyword(s): Adherence, Cellular Phone, Developing Countries, HIV, SMS
Mitchell JR et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(2)
Background:
Recent advances in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke have made rapid acquisition, visualization, and interpretation of images a key factor for positive patient outcomes. We have developed a new teleradiology system based on a client-server architecture that enables rapid access to interactive advanced 2-D and 3-D visualization on a current generation smartphone device (Apple iPhone or iPod Touch, or an Android phone) without requiring patient image data to be stored on the device. Instead, a server loads and renders the patient images, then transmits a rendered frame to the remote device.
Objective:
Our objective was to determine if a new smartphone client-server teleradiology system is capable of providing accuracies and interpretation times sufficient for diagnosis of acute stroke.
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Published:
6 May 2011 |
Keyword(s): Canada, Cellular Phone, Computed tomography, mHealth, Stroke, Telemedicine, Teleradiology
Smith ZJ et al, PloS One, 6(3)
In this paper we report the development of two attachments to a commercial cell phone that transform the phone’s integrated lens and image sensor into a 350x microscope and visible-light spectrometer. The microscope is capable of transmission and polarized microscopy modes and is shown to have 1.5 micron resolution and a usable field-of-view of 150 x 50 with no image processing, and approximately 350 x 350 when post-processing is applied. The spectrometer has a 300 nm bandwidth with a limiting spectral resolution of close to 5 nm. We show applications of the devices to medically relevant problems.
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2 March 2011 |
Keyword(s): Biomedicine, Cellular Phone, Devices, Education, mHealth, Microscope, Platform, Spectrometer, United States
Mitchell KJ et al, Health Education Research, 2011
The increase in cell phone use has manifested a growing interest in using this technology for health promotion. The portability and ‘always on’ features of the cell phone, along with increasing capability for the devices to carry and transfer data suggest that they will reach more people than computers and the Internet in coming years. Self-reported quantitative survey data from 1503 secondary school students in Mbarara, Uganda collected in 2008-2009 suggest that 27% currently have cell phones and about half (51%) of all students and 61% of those who owned a cell phone believe that they would access a text messaging-based HIV prevention program if it were available.
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2 May 2011 |
Keyword(s): Adolescent, Cellular Phone, Health Information, HIV, mHealth, SMS, Uganda
Bolle SR et al, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 17(2)
Many mobile phones allow two-way video communication, which permits callers to hear and see each other. If used during medical emergencies, bystanders can receive supervision and guidance from medical staff based on visual information. We investigated whether video calls from mobile phones could improve the confidence of lay rescuers. High school students (n = 180) were randomly assigned in groups of three to communicate via video calls or via ordinary mobile phone calls. They received realtime guidance from experienced nurse dispatchers at an emergency medical dispatch centre during 10-min scenarios of simulated cardiac arrest. Each student answered a questionnaire to assess understanding, confidence and usefulness of the technology. The mean age was 17.3 years in the video group and 17.9 years in the audio group.
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7 December 2010 |
Keyword(s): Cardiology, Cellular Phone, Emergencies, Norway, Videocommunication
Riley WT et al, Translational Behavioral Medicine, 2011
Mobile technologies are being used to deliver health behavior interventions. The study aims to determine how health behavior theories are applied to mobile interventions. This is a review of the theoretical basis and interactivity of mobile health behavior interventions. Many of the mobile health behavior interventions reviewed were predominately one way (i.e., mostly data input or informational output), but some have leveraged mobile technologies to provide just-in-time, interactive, and adaptive interventions.
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Published:
24 February 2011 |
Keyword(s): Behavioral Interventions, Cellular Phone, Chronic Disease Management, Handheld, Lifestyle, mHealth, United States
Logan AG et al, Circulation, 122(21_MeetingAbstracts)
Background and Study Hypothesis:
Previously we described an inexpensive fully automated mobile phone-based telemonitoring system that improved blood pressure (BP) control by providing immediate feedback and action messages to patients and summary reports of home BP readings and critical alerts to physicians. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that this system will improve BP treatment compared to home BP monitoring without teletransmission capability.
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Published:
23 November 2010 |
Keyword(s): Cellular Phone, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Disease Management, Hypertension, mHealth, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
