Mobile Health and Mobile Rehabilitation for People with Disabilities

Dear Colleagues,

Mobile healthcare—the delivery of health and wellness services via mobile communication technologies—is witnessing prolific growth. Mobile health (mHealth) and mobile rehabilitation (mRehab) have been touted as important new approaches for the management of chronic health conditions, including those affecting people with disabilities. 

Concerns have been raised that the proliferation of mHealth could increase health disparities if it disproportionately benefits advantaged populations and leaves vulnerable populations behind, including people with disabilities. mRehab—the use of mobile communications to support remote delivery of rehabilitation programs to patients at home or in the community—is less mature than mHealth and must also confront critical challenges of utility, efficacy, acceptance by patients and providers, integration into hospitals’ health information systems, and reimbursement.

In this Special Issue, we hope to summarize the current state-of-the-art in mHealth and mRehab service delivery, elucidate the challenges and barriers to adoption of mHealth/mRehab, and lay out an agenda for future research and development efforts in this area.

We encourage your submission of papers presenting original research findings, innovative mHealth/mRehab service delivery approaches, or review of critical barriers to adoption. 

Dr. Michael L. Jones
Dr. Frank Deruyter
Dr. John Morris
Guest Editors

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