Abstract
The increasing average life expectancy is simultaneously increasing the incidence
of chronic diseases and the number of healthy elderly people, consequently leading
to an increased demand for healthcare management methods that do not involve hospital
visits. The development of health management services involving mobile phones will
change the focus of medical services from hospital visits and treatments to managing
the health decisions made by individuals in their daily lives. However, the elderly
may experience specific difficulties in adapting to constantly evolving services.
This study reviews various health-related devices such as mobile phones that are available
for providing healthcare to the elderly, and the different ways of using them. As
the use of mobile phone increases, it is expected that elderly mobile phone users
will also be able to regularly check their health status at any time and place.
The issues of an ageing population pertain to the entire society rather than only
to the elderly, which make mobile-phone-based medical informatics as a health management
service a worthy goal.
Keywords
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CPBMI (mobile-phone-based medical informatics), IT (information technology), CDSS (clinical decision support system), ECG (electrocardiography)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 06, 2014
Accepted:
August 30,
2014
Received:
August 27,
2014
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