Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies
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The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery-particularly as experienced by patients and other users-are the focus of this forward-looking volume. Its detailed sociotechnical perspective takes in factors influencing patient and provider adoption of technological advances, in addition to the well-known cost and accessibility advantages. Enlightening reports show mobile health technologies in multiple contexts as an impetus for behavioral change, a means of monitoring health changes, a growing trend in service delivery, and an emerging health frontier…mehr

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The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery-particularly as experienced by patients and other users-are the focus of this forward-looking volume. Its detailed sociotechnical perspective takes in factors influencing patient and provider adoption of technological advances, in addition to the well-known cost and accessibility advantages. Enlightening reports show mobile health technologies in multiple contexts as an impetus for behavioral change, a means of monitoring health changes, a growing trend in service delivery, and an emerging health frontier worldwide. Together, these chapters point to the continued expansion-and global reach-of mobile technology in the next stage of healthcare services.

Included in the coverage:
Behavior change techniques used in mobile applications targeting physical activity: a systematic review
Mobile health integration in pregnancy
Unintended users, uses, and consequences of mobile weightloss apps: using eating disorders as a case study
Intention vs. perception: understanding the differences in physicians' attitudes towards mobile health applications
HealthGuide: a personalized mobile patient guidance system
Adoption of sensors in mobile health

Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies is salient reading for researchers interested in mobile health development and implementation as well as technology adoption, and mobile health system developers and managers who are interested in the implications of mobile health use by patients and/or healthcare professionals. It can also be used for courses in technology adoption and health technologies.

Autorenporträt
Emre Sezgin, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Soner Yildirim, PhD, is professor in the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology at Middle East Technical University in Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Yildirim also is an ICT consultant at Google Turkey. Sevgi Özkan-Yildirim, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Information Systems at Middle East Technical University in Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Özkan-Yildirim also is visiting research fellow at Brunel Business School in England. Evren Sumuer, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology at Kocaeli University in Kocaeli, Turkey.
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"This book provides an organized and informational view of the challenges and advancements of using technology and mobile devices into health care treatments. It can offer a great contribution in understanding how health care technologies can support people who want to manage their health. ... I would highly recommended this book to caregivers and providers who work in health care services." (April Langille, Journal of Interprofessional Care, jicareblog.org, September, 2018)