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Mobile Health Technology

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Techno-Social Smart Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 2983

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Hwayoung Cho

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Guest Editor
College of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Interests: mHealth; electronic health records; usability; health disparities; symptom care

Special Issue Information

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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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • mobile health
  • mHealth intervention
  • mobile applications
  • mobile phone/smartphone
  • mobile devices/wireless devices

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Mobile Application for Real-Time Food Plan Management for Alzheimer Patients through Design-Based Research
by Rui P. Duarte, Carlos A. S. Cunha and Valter N. N. Alves
Future Internet 2023, 15(5), 168; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15050168 - 29 Apr 2023
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Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that affects many individuals, mainly in an older age group. Over time, it leads to other diseases that affect their autonomy and independence. The quality of food ingestion is a way to mitigate the disease and [...] Read more.
Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that affects many individuals, mainly in an older age group. Over time, it leads to other diseases that affect their autonomy and independence. The quality of food ingestion is a way to mitigate the disease and preserve the patient’s well-being, which substantially impacts their health. Many existing applications for food plan management focus on the prescription of food plans but do not provide feedback to the nutritionist on the real amount of ingested calories. It makes these applications inadequate for these diseases, where monitoring and control are most important. This paper proposed the design and development of a mobile application to monitor and control the food plans of Alzheimer’s patients, focused on informal caregivers and respective patients. It allows both the realistic visualization of the food plans and users to adjust their consumption and register extra meals and water consumption. The interface design process comprises a two-level approach: the user centered design methodology that accounts for users’ needs and requirements and the user experience questionnaire to measure user satisfaction. The results show that the interface is intuitive, visually appealing, and easy to use, adjusted for users that require a particular level of understanding regarding specific subjects. Full article
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