Towards pervasive computing in health care – A literature review

Orwat, Carsten; Graefe, Andreas; Faulwasser, Timm

doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-26

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“…This finding echoes an earlier review of mHealth initiatives in developing countries (Chib, 2013). One of the barriers to providing such evidence is revealed in the common criticism that the majority of previous published mHealth initiatives are prototypes, pilots or tests (Orwat, Graefe, & Faulwasser, 2008) which do not readily upscale to national-level systems (van Heerden, Tomlinson, & Swartz, 2012). A number of critics have attributed this limited scalability to the predominant techno-centric philosophy which underpinned early mHealth projects in the region (e.g.…”

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Introduction: Social and Cultural Futures—The Everyday Use and Shifting Discourse of mHealth

Baulch

Watkins

Tariq

2017

Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications

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This book presents a range of studies into formal and informal mHealth initiatives from across the Asia region. The need for the book is clear-current mobile phone penetration in many Asian regions stands at well over 100% and in some cases has increased by up to 150-fold in the last 10 years (ITU, 2016). In response to this remarkable level of mobile adoption, the aim of the book is twofold: first, we wish to highlight how social and cultural research must play a more prominent role in understanding the impact of already existing, vernacular uses of mobile devices on mHealth programs. Second, in so doing, we wish to advance the research agenda for sociocultural approaches to mHealth by identifying key commonalities, challenges and points of variation manifest across the emerging body of mHealth work. The chapters in this book seek to achieve this aim by underlining the need to plan for the intricate social, institutional, political and communicative environments at the user level of a mHealth initiative. Our contributors include both established and emerging scholars as well as practitioners who have adopted sociocultural approaches within the mHealth domain. Their research highlights how an understanding of context can enable mHealth practitioners and policy makers to anticipate barriers or to perceive hitherto unnoticed possibilities that can make or break the successful use of personal mobile devices to achieve health outcomes.Across the Asia region, mobile devices are firmly established as an essential personal item even in many low-income regions. The mobile phone is no longer considered a 'new' medium and we contend that the future of many mHealth interventions in the Asia region will no longer be about trying to changing health Granado-Font, Ferré-Grau, & Montaña-Carreras, 2015). Such adaptation entails an implicit acknowledgment of the need for a diversification of research methodologies beyond conventional health research methods (Fiordelli, Diviani, & Schulz, 2013; PLoS Medicine Editors, 2013;Tomlinson, Rotheram-Borus, Swartz, & Tsai, 2013). It will also require skills in the application of social and cultural research to the design of mHealth initiatives in order to grasp and leverage the dynamic patterns of mobile usage by individuals and groups. A more detailed and site-sensitive insight into how devices, platforms and content are used at the local level will allow us to more reliably explore how mHealth innovation can achieve realistic and sustainable health outcomes. In particular, designers of mHealth interventions must pay further attention to the study of the informal processes that emerge outside-or on the fringes-of formal interventions, as mobile devices embed themselves ever further into the everyday lives of health workers, health seekers and-at times-health avoiders.A number of scholars have investigated the potential of mobile systems to addressing structural health challenges in the region including infectious disease, mental health or lifestyle disease (e.g. Brian and Ben-Zeev, 2014;...

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Introduction: Social and Cultural Futures—The Everyday Use and Shifting Discourse of mHealth

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Tariq

2017

Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications

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“…Comparison with previous literature Other reviews have looked at the use of context awareness in health care [4,18]. Bricon-Souf (2007) found that there was a large gap between the requirements expressed by users, and the contextaware prototypes developed.…”

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“…A common issue in context-aware systems research is the challenge of evaluating their real-world implementation [4,18]. Implementation fidelity is "the degree to which programs are implemented as intended by the program developers" [24].…”

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Context-Aware Systems for Chronic Disease Patients: Scoping Review (Preprint)

Yin¹,

Laranjo²,

Tong³

et al. 2018

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“…There is a large variety of sensors used to monitor SHs and the residents. Sensors are used to collect various types of data related to [83]:…”

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A review of smart homes in healthcare

Amiribesheli

Benmansour

Bouchachia

2015

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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The technology of Smart Homes (SH), as an instance of ambient assisted living technologies, is designed to assist the homes' residents accomplishing their daily-living activities and thus having a better quality of life while preserving their privacy. A SH system is usually equipped with a collection of inter-related software and hardware components to monitor the living space by capturing the behaviour of the resident and understanding his activities. By doing so the system can inform about risky situations and take actions on behalf of the resident to his satisfaction. The present survey will address technologies and analysis methods and bring examples of the state of the art research studies in order to provide background for the research community. In particular, the survey will expose infrastructure technologies such as sensors and communication platforms along with artificial intelligence techniques used for modeling and recognizing activities. A brief overview of approaches used to develop Human-Computer (HC) interfaces for SH systems is given. The survey also highlights the challenges and research trends in this area.

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Towards pervasive computing in health care – A literature review

Cited by 192 publications

References 65 publications

Introduction: Social and Cultural Futures—The Everyday Use and Shifting Discourse of mHealth

Introduction: Social and Cultural Futures—The Everyday Use and Shifting Discourse of mHealth

Context-Aware Systems for Chronic Disease Patients: Scoping Review (Preprint)

A review of smart homes in healthcare

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