Mobile technology and applications (apps) have disrupted several industries including healthcare. The advantage of apps, being personally focused and permitting bidirectional communication, make them well suited to address many immunization challenges. As of April 25, 2015 searching the Android app store with the words 'immunize app' and 'immunization app' in Canada yielded 225 apps. On the App...

According to a 1999 survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, 64% of all public schools and 83% of all public high schools organize some form of community service for their students. Nearly a third of all schools and half of public high schools provide service-learning programs, where the service that is being provided is linked with the school curriculum (National Center for Educat...

Introduction Australia is currently undergoing a change in the Casemix payment environment. This is the result of an agreement to move to a more nationally-consistent approach to activity-based funding (ABF) for services provided in public hospitals. ABF for acute inpatients will be based on the Australian Refined DRG Casemix system, which is derived from the coded clinical data from each hospi...

BACKGROUND Despite growing interest in mobile mental health and utilization of smartphone technology to monitor psychiatric symptoms, there remains a lack of knowledge both regarding patient ownership of smartphones and their interest in using such to monitor their mental health. OBJECTIVE To provide data on psychiatric outpatients' prevalence of smartphone ownership and interest in using the...

There is a lack of mobile app which aims to improve health screening uptake developed for men. As part of the study to develop an effective mobile app to increase health screening uptake in men, we conducted a needs assessment to find out what do men want from a health screening mobile app. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with 31 men from a banking institution in ...

This chapter presents a longitudinal study on the implementation of an e-health mobile application, DITIS, which supports network collaboration for home healthcare. By adopting the stakeholders’ analysis the study explores the various groups that have directly or indirectly supported the system during its implementation. The system was originally developed with a view to address the difficultie...

Health initiatives are becoming a growing solution for healthcare provision in developing countries. With the purpose of helping people from underserved areas to access physicians, the University of California Irvine has designed the mobile application VirTelMed. The objective of the study was to implement a usability study of VirTelMed in South Africa, with a focus in its design, usefulness an...

We read with interest the article, “Development and Validation of the User Version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (uMARS)," by Dr Stoyanov et al [1]. The authors report on the development and validation of the user version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (uMARS). If applied appropriately, this scale has the potential to improve the quality and standardization of reporting, and as...

BACKGROUND With growing demand for medical information and health applications in pregnancy, the potential of electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth) solutions in clinical care is increasingly unfolding. However, we still do not know how pregnant women engage with mobile apps, how such apps impact routine medical care, and whether benefit expectations are met. Whereas recent res...