features past achievements directly analyzed by the research team of Prof. Ahn, who was responsible for research into the telemedicine program in Gangwon Province, which has the longest history in Korea and has been evaluated as the country’s most successful program [1]. Other papers cover issues pertaining to the management of chronic diseases by using a QI and agent operated through mobile El...

This paper investigates the impact of Medicare HMO penetration on the Medicare expenditures of fee-for-service enrollees. We find evidence that increasing penetration leads to reduced spending on fee-for-service beneficiaries. In particular, we find that a one percentage point increase in Medicare HMO penetration reduces such spending by about one percent. We estimate similar models for various...

Adverse neighborhood conditions play an important role beyond individual characteristics. There is increasing interest in identifying specific characteristics of the social and built environments adversely affecting health outcomes. Most research has assessed aspects of such exposures via self-reported instruments or census data. Potential threats in the local environment may be subject to shor...

BACKGROUND The number of mental health apps (MHapps) developed and now available to smartphone users has increased in recent years. MHapps and other technology-based solutions have the potential to play an important part in the future of mental health care; however, there is no single guide for the development of evidence-based MHapps. Many currently available MHapps lack features that would gr...

The availability to deploy mobile applications for health care is increasing daily thru different mobile app stores. But within these capabilities the number of hacking attacks has also increased, in particular into medical mobile applications. The security vulnerabilities in medical mobile apps can be triggered by errors in code, incorrect logic, poor design, among other parameters. This is us...

BACKGROUND Mobile technology has become a ubiquitous technology and can be particularly useful in the delivery of health interventions. This technology can allow us to deliver interventions to scale, cover broad geographic areas, and deliver technologies in highly tailored ways based on the preferences or characteristics of users. The broad use of mobile technologies supports the need for usabi...

BACKGROUND China has a large population with cardiovascular disease (CVD) that requires extensive self-management. Mobile health (mHealth) apps may be a useful tool for CVD self-management. Little is currently known about the types and quality of health information provided in Chinese CVD mobile apps and whether app functions are conducive to promoting CVD self-management. OBJECTIVE We undert...

developing of mobile technologies in the field of health create a new branch of e-health called mobile-health. the goal of this study is evaluation of communications infrastructure for mobile-health. for this purpose, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process is used for modeling and ranking the criterions and applications. three main criteria in mobile communication network namely, data transmission, a...

OBJECTIVES Recent advances in mobile technology have opened up possibilities to provide strongly integrated mobile-based services in healthcare and telemedicine. Although the number of mobile Electronic Health Record (EHR) applications is large and growing, there is a paucity of evidence demonstrating the usage patterns of these mobile applications by healthcare providers. This study aimed to i...

ity and on the receipt of infertility services from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) allow us to determine whether and how these phenomena have changed since they were last measured in 1988. Such trend analysis has implications for projecting future health care costs, particularly in an arena of changing insurance coverage and potential health care reform. It may also be relevan...