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    Mobile health system framework in India
    (Association for Computing Machinery, 2019) Pai, R.R.; Alathur, S.
    The healthcare system in India has been progressive with the specific health policies evolved over a period of time. Currently, it is in a phase of incorporating mobile technology into healthcare service delivery (i.e., mobile health) to make it a patient-centric model for managing acute, chronic, and preventive health conditions. This provides authentic interactions between the patient/user and the healthcare professionals for seeking health communication and information during emergencies and disaster conditions. However, there exists a great challenge in integrating mobile health solutions within the existing system and acceptance among the individuals, as the patient data is primarily collected through sensors and while the interventions are connected electronically. With this aim, the present research by using qualitative interviews (among residents and technology entrepreneurs) attempts to propose a provenance framework for the mobile health system in India. It also highlights its strengths and weakness and delineates components identified from qualitative interviews for describing the proposed provenance framework. © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
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    A review of mobile health applications and its use phases
    (Inderscience Publishers, 2021) Pai, R.R.; Alathur, S.
    The use of mobile and wireless devices in healthcare plays a vital role in transforming health service delivery for patients and physicians across the globe. These devices are mainly driven because of rising healthcare costs and demand from the patients for diagnosing, treatment and care. Initiatives from the government and private companies have already started for developing mobile health interventions in the low resource setting areas. Yet, there has been less adequate reviews about mobile health applications across patients' use-phases. This paper provides a comprehensive review of mobile health applications across patients' use-phases. It reviews the most significant research articles and proposes variables that can be used for testing its significance among the people of low- and medium-income countries. It also emphasises the challenges involved in the successful deployment of mobile health applications which help in identifying the current state of research thereby establishing an agenda for future research direction. © © 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.