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What is Mobile Healthcare (M-Healthcare)

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Handbook of Research on Mobile Devices and Applications in Higher Education Settings
A form of electronic healthcare (e-healthcare) technology that manages patient’s clinical records as well as enabling a ubiquitous and uninterrupted access platform to provide these records to the doctors and caregivers using a mobile-based application.
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Information Sharing and Communications with Mobile Cloud Technology: Applications and Challenges
Shantanu Pal (The University of St. Andrews, UK)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0256-2.ch003
Abstract
The use of mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablet computers, and PDAs) has steadily increased in recent years. At the same time the cloud-based applications have greatly enhanced the computing capabilities to these mobile devices. Therefore, the emergence of mobile-cloud technology is promising for offloading computations to the cloud. In this chapter we explore the state-of-the-art research in mobile-cloud technology and discuss the integration of the mobile devices and cloud-based applications. We begin by describing the mobile-cloud architecture and its functional components. Next, we explore the applications (e.g., education, healthcare, disaster management, etc.) and related challenges (e.g., bandwidth utilization, latency, connectivity, etc.) with the mobile-cloud technology. Finally, we outline the issues associated to these applications that need to be improved upon for delivering a more scalable and resource-enhanced mobile-cloud technology to the users.
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