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Couple of interesting articles about mHealth

Started by Joaquin Blaya, PhD on 28 Feb 2013

Here are a couple of interesting articles about mHealth which just came out
in PLOS Medicine.

A Reality Checkpoint for Mobile Health: Three Challenges to Overcome

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001395

An editorial which makes three recommendations for mHealth


Scaling Up mHealth: Where Is the Evidence?

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001382


   - Despite hundreds of mHealth pilot studies, there has been insufficient
   programmatic evidence to inform implementation and scale-up of mHealth.
   - We discuss what constitutes appropriate research evidence to inform
   scale up.
   - Potential innovative research designs such as multi-factorial
   strategies, randomized controlled trials, and data farming may provide this
   evidence base.
   - We make a number of recommendations about evidence, interoperability,
   and the role of governments, private enterprise, and researchers in
   relation to the scale up of mHealth.


Joaquín
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Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems <http://www.ehs.cl/>
Research Fellow, Escuela de Medicina de Harvard <http://hms.harvard.edu/>
Moderador, GHDOnline.org <http://www.ghdonline.org/>