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Mobile Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities

Mobile Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities

Ade Bamigboye
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781613501504|ISBN10: 1613501501|EISBN13: 9781613501511
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-150-4.ch006
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Bamigboye, Ade. "Mobile Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities." Mobile Technology Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges, edited by Barbara L. Ciaramitaro, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 77-98. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-150-4.ch006

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Bamigboye, A. (2012). Mobile Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities. In B. Ciaramitaro (Ed.), Mobile Technology Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges (pp. 77-98). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-150-4.ch006

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Bamigboye, Ade. "Mobile Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities." In Mobile Technology Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges, edited by Barbara L. Ciaramitaro, 77-98. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-150-4.ch006

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Abstract

At the beginning of 2010 an estimated 68% of the world’s population had access to a mobile device. Successfully placing mobile technology at the centre of any healthcare delivery service could enable innovations in healthcare to be distributed quickly, globally, and equally. For some patients this could mean being able to gain better access to healthcare where previously there was very little or none at all. For others it could mean closer, more convenient healthcare management. For medical professionals, it is about using mobile technology to deliver and manage healthcare services from where ever they happen to be. At a national level mobile healthcare promises to provide solutions to some of the most pressing healthcare service delivery challenges that lie ahead. These include shortage of qualified healthcare professionals, increasing demand for service, and escalating costs. Mobile healthcare is a complex combination of mobile operators, medical device manufacturers, care providers, software developers, funding partners, and regulatory bodies. Each of these stakeholder groups is motivated to participate in the m-health discussion in different ways, but need to work together in order to ensure that this technology can be deployed on a scale that enables benefits to be captured. This chapter presents the challenges that the industry must collectively overcome in order for all stakeholders to be successful.

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