Abstract
Proliferation of health information and patient communication had allowed patients to have deeper understanding of their ailments leading to positive effects on personal health management (PHM). There are many PHM systems developed in the form of web and mobile applications to cultivate personal responsibility for one’s own health. Thus, this paper aims to explore the alternatives and avenues available in the form of mobile PHM applications utilized by patients, caregivers and medical professionals that can provide value-adding initiatives to improve the process of personal medical care. A Task model for the development of a mobile PHM will be discussed based on six factors, namely (1) subject; (2) objective; (3) control; (4) tool; (5) context; and (6) communication.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
References
WHO, World health statistics. World Health Organization (2012)
Hesse, B.W., et al.: Social participation in health 2.0. Computer 43(11), 45–52 (2010)
Pratt, W., et al.: Personal health information management. Communications of the ACM 49(1), 51–55 (2006)
Unruh, L., Spetz, J.: A primer on health economics. Policy and Politics in Nursing and Healthcare-Revised Reprint (2013)
Eysenbach, G.: CONSORT-EHEALTH: improving and standardizing evaluation reports of Web-based and mobile health interventions. Journal of Medical Internet Research 13(4) (2011)
Kahn, J.G., Yang, J.S., Kahn, J.S.: ‘Mobile’health needs and opportunities in developing countries. Health Affairs 29(2), 252–258 (2010)
Taylor, J., et al.: Towards a task model for mobile learning: a dialectical approach. International Journal of Learning Technology 2(2), 138–158 (2006)
Lee, C., Nordstedt, D., Helal, S.: Enabling smart spaces with OSGi. IEEE Pervasive Computing 2(3), 89–94 (2003)
Sharples, M., Taylor, J., Vavoula, G.: Towards a theory of mobile learning. In: Proceedings of mLearn 2005, vol. 1(1), pp. 1–9 (2005)
Frohberg, D., Göth, C., Schwabe, G.: Mobile learning projects–a critical analysis of the state of the art. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 25(4), 307–331 (2009)
Ahangama, S., Poo, D.C.C.: Mobile Social Media Platform for Personal Health Management. In: 24th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Milano, Italy (2013) (accepted for poster presentation)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Ahangama, S., Lim, Y.S., Koh, S.Y., Poo, D.C.C. (2014). Revolutionizing Mobile Healthcare Monitoring Technology: Analysis of Features through Task Model. In: Meiselwitz, G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. SCSM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8531. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07632-4_28
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07632-4_28
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-07631-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-07632-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)