mHealth - related technologies and applications could be applied as: • an emergency response systems• a disease surveillance and control systems• human resources coordination, management, and supervision

systems • mobile diagnostic applications• remote patient monitoring applications • health extension services• health service monitoring and reporting applications• learning applications• and education systems and applications for health care workers

Results of studiesmHealth systems could be used by

public

to improve access to health related

information

to increase speed of responses from

medical organization

to built effective communication

channel with medical professionals

Uses of mobile phones for health-information environment

85% of American adults use a cell phone

for those 17% used a cell

phone to look up health-

related information

9% of cell phone users have specialized

health-related applications

Fox, S. (2010). Mobile Health 2010. Retrieved from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project website: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Mobile-Health-2010.aspx

Quality of the Health Information on the Web and Mobile