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  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,731 Views
27 Pages

Background: mHealth applications provide health practitioners with platforms that enable disease management, facilitate drug adherence, facilitate drug adherence, speed up diagnosis, monitor outbreaks, take and transfer medical images, and provide ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,111 Views
16 Pages

28 December 2022

Mobile health apps are seeing rapid growth in the potential to improve access to healthcare services for disadvantaged communities, while enhancing the efficiency of the healthcare delivery value chain. Still, the adoption of mHealth apps is relative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,240 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2022

As an important branch of the modern electronic health care services, mobile health applications (mHealth APP) have been widely accepted as a novel health care-providing platform. Based on mobile communications, mHealth is operated on smart terminals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,053 Views
18 Pages

25 February 2025

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) applications have transformed healthcare delivery by enhancing accessibility, patient monitoring, and clinician communication. Despite these advantages, significant barriers hinder their adoption among healthcare p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,063 Views
20 Pages

10 August 2022

The development of internet technology enables mobile medical health (mHealth) applications (Apps) to provide users with health services. The content presentation of apps is an important factor affecting users’ adoption of mHealth Apps. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,518 Views
17 Pages

This study was conducted with objectives to measure and validate the unified theory of the acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model as well as to identify the predictors of mobile health (mHealth) technology adoption among healthcare profession...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,496 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2024

(1) Aims and Objectives: Mobile health (mHealth) is increasingly becoming a favorite healthcare delivery solution in underserved areas around the globe. This study aims to identify the influence of technology–organization–environment (TOE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,355 Views
25 Pages

Challenges in the Adoption of eHealth and mHealth for Adult Mental Health Management—Evidence from Romania

  • Andra Ioana Maria Tudor,
  • Eliza Nichifor,
  • Adriana Veronica Litră,
  • Ioana Bianca Chițu,
  • Tamara-Oana Brătucu and
  • Gabriel Brătucu

New methods of connecting physicians and patients have arisen. Technology is playing a crucial role and the concept of hybrid doctor–patient relationship is considered relevant for the competitive health management system. At the same time, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,157 Views
24 Pages

21 March 2025

Mobile Health (mHealth) technologies are transforming healthcare by making it more accessible, efficient, and patient-centric. This study investigates the factors influencing Millennial’s mobile health adoption intention (mHAI). We propose a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,230 Views
15 Pages

14 June 2024

As mobile health (mHealth) offers several advantages in healthcare, researchers are exploring the motivational factors for its adoption. However, few studies have elucidated the complex relationship between social influence and behavioral intentions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
9,712 Views
13 Pages

User Engagement and Abandonment of mHealth: A Cross-Sectional Survey

  • Abdulsalam Salihu Mustafa,
  • Nor’ashikin Ali,
  • Jaspaljeet Singh Dhillon,
  • Gamal Alkawsi and
  • Yahia Baashar

24 January 2022

Mobile health (mHealth) apps have great potential to improve health outcomes. Given that mHealth apps have become ubiquitous, there is limited focus on their abandonment. Data concerning crucial metrics, including reasons for adoption and discontinue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,922 Views
14 Pages

What Motivates Chinese Young Adults to Use mHealth?

  • Wai-Ming To,
  • Peter K. C. Lee,
  • Jinxuan Lu,
  • Junhao Wang,
  • Yihan Yang and
  • Qingxin Yu

2 December 2019

mHealth is one of China’s national strategies that brings affordable, accessible, and convenient health care to its entire population, may they be in cities or rural areas. Although Chinese young adults are among the first to adopt mHealth, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,594 Views
17 Pages

Searching for Sustainability in Health Systems: Toward a Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Mobile Health Innovations

  • Florence Degavre,
  • Suzanne Kieffer,
  • David Bol,
  • Rémi Dekimpe,
  • Charlotte Desterbecq,
  • Thibault Pirson,
  • Georgiana Sandu and
  • Sandy Tubeuf

27 April 2022

Mobile health (mHealth) innovations are considered by governments as game changers toward more sustainable health systems. The existing literature focuses on the clinical aspects of mHealth but lacks an integrated framework on its sustainability. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,878 Views
15 Pages

Monitoring COVID-19 patients with COPD has become one of the major tasks in preventing transmission and delivering emergency healthcare services after vaccination in case of any issues. Most COVID-19-affected patients are suggested to self-quarantine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,818 Views
21 Pages

This study aims to understand the post-adoption behaviors of mobile health (m-Health) service users during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the stimulus-organism-response framework, we examined the effects of user personality traits, doctor characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,775 Views
26 Pages

Mobile health (mHealth) technologies have been identified as promising strategies for improving access to healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. However, the extent of availability and use of mHealth among healthcare professionals in Ghana is not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,095 Views
23 Pages

Cross-Analysis of mHealth Social Acceptance Among Youth: A Comparative Study Between Japan and China

  • Olugbenga Akiogbe,
  • Hanlin Feng,
  • Karin Kurata,
  • Makoto Niwa,
  • Jianfei Cao,
  • Shuo Zhang,
  • Itsuki Kageyama,
  • Yoshiyuki Kobayashi,
  • Yeongjoo Lim and
  • Kota Kodama

14 February 2025

Although mobile health (mHealth) technologies have emerged as a revolutionary approach to enhance healthcare delivery, few studies have examined how it is perceived and accepted in different cultures. This study investigated mHealth’s social ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,030 Views
21 Pages

Emergency usage intention and behavior are crucial to business service success for m-Health providers and patient healthcare service. This study aimed to identify the factors that influence m-Health acceptance and the effect of emergency use intentio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
97 Citations
19,492 Views
44 Pages

A Survey on M2M Systems for mHealth: A Wireless Communications Perspective

  • Elli Kartsakli,
  • Aris S. Lalos,
  • Angelos Antonopoulos,
  • Stefano Tennina,
  • Marco Di Renzo,
  • Luis Alonso and
  • Christos Verikoukis

26 September 2014

In the new era of connectivity, marked by the explosive number of wireless electronic devices and the need for smart and pervasive applications, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications are an emerging technology that enables the seamless device inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
7,391 Views
23 Pages

Aging has increased the burden of social medical care. Mobile health (mHealth) services provide an effective way to alleviate this pressure. However, the actual usage of mHealth services for elderly users is still very low. The extant studies mainly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,538 Views
18 Pages

Vehicular Alarm System Using mHealth Data and Lightweight Security Algorithms

  • James Jin Kang,
  • Sazia Parvin,
  • Kiran Fahd and
  • Sitalakshmi Venkatraman

Among the various factors affecting long distance driving are the risks imposed by a driver’s health, which could result in road accidents. Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile health (mHealth) technologies are increasingly being recognized for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
11,024 Views
21 Pages

mHealth Apps for Self-Management of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Scoping Review

  • Nancy Aracely Cruz-Ramos,
  • Giner Alor-Hernández,
  • Luis Omar Colombo-Mendoza,
  • José Luis Sánchez-Cervantes,
  • Lisbeth Rodríguez-Mazahua and
  • Luis Rolando Guarneros-Nolasco

8 February 2022

The use of mHealth apps for the self-management of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is an increasing trend in patient-centered care. In this research, we conduct a scoping review of mHealth apps for CVD self-management within the period 2014 to 2021. O...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,328 Views
16 Pages

Introduction: The rapid growth of mobile health (mHealth) applications has revolutionized healthcare delivery worldwide. These digital tools encompass a broad array of functionalities, including telemedicine, appointment scheduling, medication manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,287 Views
16 Pages

Strengthening the Trialability for the Intention to Use of mHealth Apps Amidst Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Munshi Muhammad Abdul Kader Jilani,
  • Md. Moniruzzaman,
  • Mouri Dey,
  • Edris Alam and
  • Md. Aftab Uddin

Recent advancements in mHealth apps and services have played a vital role in strengthening healthcare services and enabling their accessibility to marginalized people. With the alarming rise in COVID-19 infection rates around the world, there appears...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,766 Views
16 Pages

Social Acceptance of Mobile Health among Young Adults in Japan: An Extension of the UTAUT Model

  • Jianfei Cao,
  • Karin Kurata,
  • Yeongjoo Lim,
  • Shintaro Sengoku and
  • Kota Kodama

The unprecedented development of information and communication technologies has opened up immense possibilities in the field of health care. Mobile health (mHealth) is gaining increasing attention as an important technology for solving health-related...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,085 Views
20 Pages

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) applications play a crucial role in enhancing healthcare accessibility, patient engagement, and chronic disease management. However, technical, usability, accessibility, and privacy-related barriers continue to hin...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,164 Views
21 Pages

Leveraging mHealth and Wearable Sensors to Manage Alcohol Use Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Clemens Scott Kruse,
  • Jose A. Betancourt,
  • Stephanie Madrid,
  • Christopher William Lindsey and
  • Vanessa Wall

1 September 2022

Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a condition prevalent in many countries around the world, and the public burden of its treatment is close to $130 billion. mHealth offers several possible interventions to assist in the treatment of AUD. Obje...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,325 Views
17 Pages

23 November 2023

The use of mobile health (mHealth) is providing value to the elderly, but their acceptance of it is lower than in other age groups. Thus, this study aims to explore the factors influencing their intention to use mHealth and identify barriers and sugg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Views
16 Pages

9 December 2025

Introduction: Postpartum family planning (PPFP) is a critical strategy for improving maternal and child health by preventing unintended pregnancies and optimizing birth spacing. However, PPFP uptake remains suboptimal in Ethiopia, where sociocultural...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,169 Views
25 Pages

Leveraging mHealth and Virtual Reality to Improve Cognition for Alzheimer’s Patients: A Systematic Review

  • Clemens Scott Kruse,
  • Keya Sen,
  • Valery Armenta,
  • Nicole Hubbard and
  • Rebekah Brooks

23 September 2022

Background: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a global problem affecting 58 million people, expected to reach a prevalence of 88 million people by 2050. The disease affects the brain, memory, cognition, language, and motor movement. Many intervention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,506 Views
14 Pages

15 March 2022

Background: In recent years, rapid population ageing has become a worldwide phenomenon. Both electronic health services (eHealth) and mobile health services (mHealth) are becoming important components of healthcare delivery. The market for mHealth is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
893 Views
16 Pages

28 September 2025

Background: The rapid advancement of mobile health [mHealth] applications significantly improved healthcare accessibility. However, the adoption of these applications among the elderly population remains uncertain. This study aims to assess the attit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,401 Views
36 Pages

Patients’ UX Impact on Medication Adherence in Czech Pilot Study for Chronically Ill

  • Ondrej Gergely,
  • Romana Mazalová,
  • Michal Štýbnar,
  • Antonín Hlavinka,
  • Nicola Goodfellow,
  • Michael Scott,
  • Glenda Fleming,
  • Leona Jochmannová and
  • Ladislav Stanke

9 June 2024

This article presents a comprehensive and multistage approach to the development of the user experience (UX) for an mHealth application targeting older adult patients with chronic diseases, specifically chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,549 Views
25 Pages

28 December 2024

With the acceleration of the aging process in China, chronic diseases have become one of the main health threats for older adults, creating significant pressure on society and the healthcare system. As information technology and artificial intelligen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,264 Views
28 Pages

Successful Aging for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: An Experimental Study with a Tablet App

  • Beenish Moalla Chaudhry,
  • Dipanwita Dasgupta and
  • Nitesh V. Chawla

Mobile health (mHealth) technologies offer an opportunity to enable the care and support of community-dwelling older adults, however, research examining the use of mHealth in delivering quality of life (QoL) improvements in the older population is li...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,516 Views
9 Pages

Adoption of Health Mobile Apps during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Health Belief Model Approach

  • Nouf Sahal Alharbi,
  • Amany Shlyan AlGhanmi and
  • Mochammad Fahlevi

This study aimed to investigate the adoption of the Sehha, Mawid, and Tetamman mobile health applications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia. The present study investigated factors influencing app use intention based on the Health Belief Mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,607 Views
18 Pages

There is a scarcity of resources and studies that utilize targeted weight management interventions to engage parents via mHealth tools targeting obese children and adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities (MIDs) extended from school to a home...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,969 Views
25 Pages

This paper presents the mHealth Predictive Outbreak for COVID-19 (mPOC) framework, an autonomous platform based on wearable Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices for outbreak prediction and monitoring. It utilizes real-time physiological and envi...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,507 Views
16 Pages

Smartphone as a Sensor in mHealth: Narrative Overview, SWOT Analysis, and Proposal of Mobile Biomarkers

  • Alessio Antonini,
  • Serhan Coşar,
  • Iman Naja,
  • Muhammad Salman Haleem,
  • Jamie Hugo Macdonald,
  • Paquale Innominato and
  • Giacinto Barresi

11 June 2025

Digital applications for supporting health management often fail to achieve large-scale adoption. Costs related to purchasing, maintaining, and using medical or sensor devices, such as smartwatches, currently hinder uptake and sustained engagement, p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
722 Views
14 Pages

Cross-Sectional Study of the Changes in Attitudes of Post-Acute Coronary Syndromes Patients Towards Remote Biosignal Monitoring an eHealth Support in a 5-Year Interval

  • Natalia Tsoumani,
  • Iosif Klironomos,
  • Margherita Antona,
  • Nikos Kampanis,
  • George E. Kochiadakis,
  • Constantine Stephanidis,
  • Spyridon Karageorgos and
  • George Notas

5 September 2025

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) applications have shown promise for the primary and secondary prevention of diseases in high-risk individuals. Implementing mHealth solutions for secondary prevention and early alert systems in patients with acute...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,426 Views
30 Pages

Leveraging Telehealth for the Management of Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review

  • Clemens Scott Kruse,
  • Gerardo J. Pacheco,
  • Brea Vargas,
  • Nadya Lozano,
  • Sergio Castro and
  • Manasa Gattu

12 October 2022

Background: Breast cancer affects 2.3 million women and kills 685,000 globally, making it the most prevalent cancer. The telemedicine modality has been used to treat the symptoms associated with breast cancer recovery. Objectives: To analyze the effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,157 Views
20 Pages

10 October 2024

Background/Objectives: An Android platform-based customised app and web-linked system was developed to aid in implementing selected nutrition interventions by community health workers (CHWs) in a community-based cluster randomised trial (c-RCT) in ru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,802 Views
15 Pages

(1) Background: Contact tracing and notification apps for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are installed on smartphones and are intended to detect contact with another person’s device. A high installation rate is important for these apps to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,880 Views
17 Pages

Football Fandom as a Platform for Digital Health Promotion and Behaviour Change: A Mobile App Case Study

  • Alex Fenton,
  • Anna Mary Cooper-Ryan,
  • Mariann (Maz) Hardey and
  • Wasim Ahmed

Background: The last decade has seen a dramatic shift toward the study of fitness surveillance, thanks in part to the emergence of mobile health (mHealth) apps that allow users to track their health through a variety of data-driven insights. This stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,870 Views
24 Pages

Formative Research for Adapting the Cholera-Hospital-Based-Intervention-for-7-Days (CHoBI7) Water Treatment and Hygiene Mobile Health Program for Scalable Delivery in Rural Bangladesh

  • Fatema Zohura,
  • Tahmina Parvin,
  • Kelly Endres,
  • Elizabeth D. Thomas,
  • Zakir Hossain,
  • Kabir Hossain,
  • Jahed Masud,
  • Ismat Minhaj,
  • Sawkat Sarwar and
  • Jamie Perin
  • + 6 authors

The Cholera-Hospital-based-Intervention-for-7-Days (CHoBI7) mobile health (mHealth) program is a targeted water treatment and hygiene (WASH) program for the household members of diarrhea patients, initiated in the healthcare facility with a single in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,358 Views
21 Pages

Mobile health (mHealth) services have recently been receiving increasing attention. However, there is a lack of knowledge about how users accept and adopt mobile medical treatment (MMT) services, some of the most promising mHealth services that aim t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,522 Views
11 Pages

Mobile health and mobile rehabilitation (mHealth and mRehab) services and technologies have attracted considerable interest from healthcare providers, technology vendors, rehabilitation engineers, investors and policy makers in recent years. Successf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,520 Views
20 Pages

A Smartphone-Based M-Health Monitoring System for Arrhythmia Diagnosis

  • Jun Luo,
  • Mengru Zhang,
  • Haohang Li,
  • Dan Tao and
  • Ruipeng Gao

18 April 2024

Deep learning technology has been widely adopted in the research of automatic arrhythmia detection. However, there are several limitations in existing diagnostic models, e.g., difficulties in extracting temporal information from long-term ECG signals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,525 Views
18 Pages

Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI) symptom-checker apps are proliferating, yet their everyday usability and transparency remain under-examined. This study provides a triangulated evaluation of three widely used AI-powered mHealth apps: ADA, Med...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,286 Views
25 Pages

Background/Objectives: Telemedicine has emerged as a transformative solution to healthcare access challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, where many populations remain underserved. This systematic review focuses on the adoption, implementation, and technol...

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