BACKGROUND There is significant potential for mobile health technology to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic diseases. However, there is a need for further development of mobile health technology that would help to improve the health of lower-income communities. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to assess mobile phone and app usage among a culturally diverse patient population,...

Radiol Bras. 2014 Mar/Abr;47(2):IX mHealth, or mobile health is a term associated with the daily practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices such as cell phones and tablets. It is an universal trend of convergence of all patients’ information and images, data banks as source of information, academic social networks, specialized remote support systems and alike, as a suppo...

Introduction: The demand for mobile learning in the medicalsciences educational program is increasing. The present reviewstudy gathers evidence highlighted by the experimental studieson the educational effects of mobile learning for medical sciencesstudents.Methods: The study was carried out as a systematic literaturesearch published from 2007 to July 2017 in the databases PubMed/Medline, Cumul...