Department to Humanities and Management, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India.
School of Management, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India.
Int J Med Inform. 2021 Jan;145:104330. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104330. Epub 2020 Nov 10.
The purpose of this research is to analyze the literature published on mobile health (mHealth) in the Indian context. It also reviews the most important research works and presents various methodologies adopted by the researchers in this domain.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The SciVerse SCOPUS database was used for extracting the literature on mobile health. The study used articles published between January 2008 to 28 June 2019. The keyword used is 'mHealth' and journal articles with studies or interventions carried out in India were selected for bibliometric analysis and methodological review.
For the keyword search, a total of 7,874 documents have been extracted, of which only 158 have been considered for the analysis. There is an exponential increase in the number of publications from the year 2015 to 2019. The keywords used for representing their articles have been grouped as mobile health devices, gender and age groups, system and software, health and disease condition, management, evidence-based practices (outcome), methods, and importance of the study. The journal PLOS One (87) has the highest number of citations, followed by The Lancet (63). The bibliometric analysis of the literature revealed seven clusters classified as individual's individual's mobile health applications adoption characteristics, need for mobile health and its governance, mobile phone application with the internet of things based framework for healthcare monitoring, mobile health for primary healthcare systems, authentication and security protocol for mobile healthcare, development and experimentation of mobile health application, and development and mobile health for adherence support intervention.
ORIGINALITY/VALUE: The study contributes in analyzing the bibliometrics and provides a methodological review for the journal articles published on mobile health. Previous articles considered systematic analysis of the bibliometric for mHealth, and mobile technology but less adequately discussed specifically towards Indian context which this study has embraced.
本研究旨在分析印度背景下移动医疗（mHealth）的文献。它还回顾了最重要的研究工作，并介绍了该领域研究人员采用的各种方法。
设计/方法/方法：使用 SciVerse SCOPUS 数据库提取移动医疗文献。该研究使用了 2008 年 1 月至 2019 年 6 月 28 日期间发表的文章。使用的关键词是“mHealth”，并选择了在印度进行的研究或干预的期刊文章进行文献计量分析和方法学审查。
对于关键字搜索，共提取了 7874 篇文档，其中只有 158 篇被认为用于分析。从 2015 年到 2019 年，出版物的数量呈指数增长。用于表示其文章的关键词已分为移动医疗设备、性别和年龄组、系统和软件、健康和疾病状况、管理、循证实践（结果）、方法和研究的重要性。期刊 PLOS One（87）的引用次数最多，其次是 The Lancet（63）。文献计量分析揭示了七个聚类，分为个人移动医疗应用采用特征、移动医疗需求及其治理、基于物联网的移动电话应用程序用于医疗保健监测、初级保健系统的移动医疗、移动医疗认证和安全协议、移动医疗应用程序的开发和实验、以及移动医疗开发和依从性支持干预。
原创性/价值：该研究有助于分析文献计量学，并为移动医疗发表的期刊文章提供方法学评论。以前的文章考虑了对 mHealth 和移动技术的系统分析，但较少充分地讨论了具体针对印度背景的情况，本研究对此进行了探讨。
