How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX.
How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX.
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DOI：
10.1186/1475-925x-10-24
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发表时间：
2011-04-05
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Jones R
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作者：
Boulos MN;Wheeler S;Tavares C;Jones R
最新一代的智能手机越来越多地被视为掌上电脑，而不是手机，因为它们具有强大的板载计算能力，大容量存储器，大屏幕和开放的操作系统，鼓励应用程序开发。本文简要概述了当今市场上的健康和医疗保健智能手机应用程序（应用程序），包括新兴趋势和市场占有率。目前可用的平台包括Android、Apple iOS、RIM BlackBerry、Symbian和Windows（Windows移动的6.x和新兴的Windows Phone 7平台）。本文涵盖了各种场景下针对外行/患者和医疗保健专业人员的应用程序，例如，健康，健身和生活方式教育和管理应用程序;环境辅助生活应用程序;继续专业教育工具;以及公共卫生监测应用程序。在调查的应用程序中，有一些是协助慢性病管理的应用程序，无论是作为独立的应用程序还是BAN（体域网）和远程服务器配置的一部分。我们详细描述了eCASTIX（增强型完整环境辅助生活实验，2009-2012）中智能手机应用程序的开发，eCASTIX是欧盟资助的针对患有多种慢性疾病的老年人的项目。eCASTIX Android智能手机应用程序接收来自BAN（带有无线健康传感器的患者可穿戴智能服装）和智能手机中的GPS（全球定位系统）位置传感器的输入，并通过互联网与负责远程监测和管理患有多种慢性病的老年患者的医疗保健专业人员可访问的远程服务器进行通信。最后，我们简要讨论了采用健康和医疗保健智能手机应用程序的障碍（例如，成本、网络带宽和电池功率效率、可用性、隐私问题等），以及一些缓解这些障碍的变通方法。
The latest generation of smartphones are increasingly viewed as handheld computers rather than as phones, due to their powerful on-board computing capability, capacious memories, large screens and open operating systems that encourage application development. This paper provides a brief state-of-the-art overview of health and healthcare smartphone apps (applications) on the market today, including emerging trends and market uptake. Platforms available today include Android, Apple iOS, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows (Windows Mobile 6.x and the emerging Windows Phone 7 platform). The paper covers apps targeting both laypersons/patients and healthcare professionals in various scenarios, e.g., health, fitness and lifestyle education and management apps; ambient assisted living apps; continuing professional education tools; and apps for public health surveillance. Among the surveyed apps are those assisting in chronic disease management, whether as standalone apps or part of a BAN (Body Area Network) and remote server configuration. We describe in detail the development of a smartphone app within eCAALYX (Enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment, 2009-2012), an EU-funded project for older people with multiple chronic conditions. The eCAALYX Android smartphone app receives input from a BAN (a patient-wearable smart garment with wireless health sensors) and the GPS (Global Positioning System) location sensor in the smartphone, and communicates over the Internet with a remote server accessible by healthcare professionals who are in charge of the remote monitoring and management of the older patient with multiple chronic conditions. Finally, we briefly discuss barriers to adoption of health and healthcare smartphone apps (e.g., cost, network bandwidth and battery power efficiency, usability, privacy issues, etc.), as well as some workarounds to mitigate those barriers.