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What is Monitoring Applications

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
Involve the use of a technology to enable the monitoring of patients while outside of conventional clinical settings (e.g.. in the home), which may increase the access to care and decreases the cost of delivering healthcare.
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How Mobile Technologies Are Leading to Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigel McKelvey (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland), Adam Crossan (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland), and Kevin Curran (Ulster University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3479-3.ch118
Abstract
Mobile technology today is increasingly being used to help improve underdeveloped and developing areas such as sub-Saharan Africa. With the statistics showing the number of adults in Africa owning mobile devices steadily increasing, mobile technology has been a popular area of interest to use to help improve areas such as healthcare and education throughout African cities and rural areas. Common that ways mobile technology is being used to help the residents of sub-Saharan Africa are in the sectors of health care and education. Mobile technologies being used in these areas whilst simple are incredibly effective and successful in helping to better the quality of health in education in sub-Saharan Africa. Many of the projects and systems developed using mobile technology focus mainly on urban areas. While reports state the huge increase in the number of those using mobile devices in Africa, along with the large estimated increase in the coming years, the difference between rural African countries and countries which contain urban cities is substantial.
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