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mHealth in Resource-Constrained Environments

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  • Barbara Rita Barricelli

    (Department of Computer Science,Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy)

  • Yanet Devis

    (School of Computing and Technology, University of West London, London, UK)

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The use of mobile devices in telemedicine contributes to providing more effective and efficient remote healthcare in rural areas improving patients' life style and medical quality of service in this setting. The idea of creating mobile applications for this scenario led the authors to face important sociotechnical challenges in terms of innovation and design for resource-constrained environments. In this paper the authors present the outcomes of MANTRA (Mobile ANticoagulant TheRApy) Project developed for and evaluated in Venezuela. Through the evaluation of this project under those settings the authors developed an approach to mHealth in the remote management of chronic diseases by supporting the communication between doctors.

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  • Barbara Rita Barricelli & Yanet Devis, 2014. "mHealth in Resource-Constrained Environments," International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), IGI Global, vol. 6(1), pages 18-35, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jskd00:v:6:y:2014:i:1:p:18-35
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