Akter S, Ray P
Asia-Pacific ubiquitous Healthcare research Centre (APuHC), Information Systems, Technology and Management, Australian School of Business (ASB), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Yearb Med Inform. 2010:94-100.
To summarize major current developments and research in the field of mobile health (mHealth) services.
Reports on the unique characteristics of mHealth platform and its role in delivering health services to the resource poor settings. Also, it evaluates different mHealth applications and identifies key success factors and challenges.
mHealth, based on the most ubiquitous and widely accepted technology, offers an unprecedented opportunity to serve the unserved by right time medical information services. There is growing evidence that it has already transformed healthcare delivery in many resource poor settings through its low cost, high reach and versatile applications. However, challenges still remain with regard to the development of consumer centric solutions, and services quality in terms of knowledge and competence of the provider, integration of the information systems and interoperability of the information services. Additional problems arise from the collaboration, partnership and regulation perspectives. There are noticeable trends towards solutions for these problems.
总结移动健康（mHealth）服务领域当前的主要发展和研究情况。
报告mHealth平台的独特特征及其在为资源匮乏地区提供健康服务方面的作用。此外，评估不同的mHealth应用，并确定关键成功因素和挑战。
基于最普遍且广泛接受的技术，mHealth提供了前所未有的机会，通过适时的医疗信息服务为未得到服务的人群提供服务。越来越多的证据表明，它已经通过低成本、高覆盖范围和多功能应用改变了许多资源匮乏地区的医疗服务提供方式。然而，在以消费者为中心的解决方案开发、服务质量（从提供者的知识和能力、信息系统集成以及信息服务的互操作性方面来看）方面仍然存在挑战。从合作、伙伴关系和监管角度还会出现其他问题。针对这些问题有明显的解决趋势。
