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What is Phablets

Handbook of Research on Next Generation Mobile Communication Systems
It is the concatenation of the words phone and tablet, which is a mobile device that is used for the functions of both phone and tablet.
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Mobility in Healthcare: M-Health
Güney Gürsel (GATA, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8732-5.ch019
Abstract
Mobility is the blossoming technology of our era. Mobile devices, especially smart phones, tablets, phablets are becoming common, and they are being a part of us as we carry all the time with us. Business discovered the easy-to-reach-customer facility of mobility and companies focus on this area. Scientific research focused on this area as well. Using the facilities provided with all the time with us mobile devices, especially healthcare can gain tremendous advances and have already done in some applications. Remote healthcare, decreased costs, advanced healthcare access, prioritizing the patients, can be given as examples to the advances that have been gained. As the mobile healthcare applications becoming common, there exists a danger of abuse and misuse. The need for regulations has emerged. The purpose of this study is to give basic information and vision about the usage of mobility in medical domain to ease healthcare and make it more effective. The mobile technologies used in the healthcare information systems, together with the challenges, problems and regulations, is explained.
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