PMID- 25980851
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170424
LR  - 20170424
IS  - 1879-8365 (Electronic)
IS  - 0926-9630 (Linking)
VI  - 211
DP  - 2015
TI  - mHealth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Status, Requirements and Strategies.
PG  - 79-87
AB  - Recent studies demonstrate the potential of Mobile Health (mHealth) to improve 
      quality of care and efficiency in low- and middle- income countries (LMIC). 
      However, strong evidence of their impact, especially in large scale projects is 
      still missing. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview about the 
      current status of mHealth in LMIC, and to identify Requirements and possible 
      Strategies to strength their health systems. A search in Pubmed was performed, 
      which resulted in 427 articles. Restricting the search to review papers published 
      during the last 5 years, 72 publications were identified and characterized, and 
      the more relevant articles analyzing mHealth use, impact and/or adoption in LMIC 
      from a more generic perspective were analyzed in detail. Finally, based on the 
      literature, and complemented with the authors own reflections and experience, 
      mHealth challenges and strategies were identified and presented according to the 
      WHO Health Systems Framework which identifies six main lines of action to improve 
      the performance of health systems: service delivery, health workforce, health 
      information systems, essential medical products and technologies, health 
      financing and governance.
FAU - Lopez, Diego M
AU  - Lopez DM
AD  - Telematics Engineering Research Group, University of Cauca, Colombia.
FAU - Blobel, Bernd
AU  - Blobel B
AD  - Medical Faculty, University of Regensburg, Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Stud Health Technol Inform
JT  - Studies in health technology and informatics
JID - 9214582
RN  - 0 (Drugs, Essential)
RN  - 0 (Vaccines)
MH  - Biomedical Technology/organization & administration
MH  - Delivery of Health Care/economics/*organization & administration/standards
MH  - *Developing Countries
MH  - Drugs, Essential/supply & distribution
MH  - Health Care Costs
MH  - Health Personnel/organization & administration
MH  - Information Systems/economics/*organization & administration/standards
MH  - Leadership
MH  - *Smartphone
MH  - Telemedicine/economics/*organization & administration/standards
MH  - Vaccines/supply & distribution
EDAT- 2015/05/20 06:00
MHDA- 2017/04/25 06:00
CRDT- 2015/05/19 06:00
PHST- 2015/05/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/05/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/04/25 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;211:79-87.