Mobile Health Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Use of mobile technologies in healthcare has rapidly expanded. The ubiquitous nature of mobile health (mHealth) technologies brings convenience to everyday lives and creates opportunities to deliver health interventions in a portable format with enhanced privacy and increasing accessibility to health interventions. Evidence has grown supporting the potential of mHealth technologies to be a useful delivery mode of health information by facilitating the dissemination of evidence-based health information quickly and broadly, and the efficacy of mHealth technologies for the management of chronic diseases in real world. Specifically, using mHealth technologies for underserved populations (racial and ethnic minorities; low-socioeconomic groups) who face barriers to accessing health information can reduce health disparities, promote health outcomes, and improve quality of life. In the era of using mHealth technologies to achieve the goals (to maximize the benefits from using mHealth technologies), it is imperative to ensure that mHealth technologies in healthcare are safe, effective, and efficient through rigorous usability testing. The aim of the Special Issue is to report on the current evidence of the efficacy of mHealth technologies to promote health outcomes and/or the usability and user perceptions of mHealth technologies.

Dr. Hwayoung Cho
Guest Editor

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