Talk:MHealth

Article retention
The term mHealth has actually been around for several years (for example, a Google search turns up several professional presentations on the topic), so that for present purposes it should not be considered a neologism. The more general topic of eHealth is very broad and cannot be covered adequately in a single article. mHealth presents many unique advantages and disadvantages, such as increased vulnerability to error and malicious attack, potentially increased workload for clinical staff, excessive focus of people on minor health concerns to the detriment of quality of life, improved connectivity and collaboration with one's healthcare team, better monitoring of physiological and psychological variables in selected cases, etc. mHealth deserves its own article. Myron (talk) 22:15, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I am not sure why the above writer feels that mHealth poses a particular risk of "increased vulnerability to error and malicious attack" or "excessive focus of people on minor health concerns". mHealth is technology to support the health system. Like other technologies, such as the telephone and paper/pencil and computers in general, there are pitfalls and shortcomings to be faced. As a physician and mHealth developer, I am not sure what the writer is getting at with those particular concerns. Jselanikio (talk) 19:09, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Violation of Verifiability, Neutral point of view
The list of mHealth projects contained within the article currently violates the Verifiability and Neutral Point of View policies of Wikipedia, and should be removed. Providing what deems to be comprehensive a list of 'mHealth Projects' in a quickly developing field is nearly impossible and biased towards projects developed by English speakers. Many of the projects within the list have incomplete data, do not have citation links, or are provided with links back to companies specific promotional websites (violating both Verifiability and Neutral Point of View). Some of the projects listed never existed beyond concept stage (http://resultssms.org/). Other large, national mHealth initiatives are missing. Nearly all the project information is out of date, with the information provided now incorrect. Wikipedia is not the proper location to provide a mapping of individual, mHealth initiatives. It is nearly impossible for a community of users to ensure that this information is accurate and up-to-date. It would be much more effective to provide links within the article to other sites (such as www.mobileactive.org), academic journals, etc that can provide this detailed and ever changing information. seanblaschke (talk) 12:20, 21 May 2012 (EAT)
 * I agree; this would be better framed as some categories of types of mHealth projects, with mentions or case studies of documented/verifiable examples, and then external links to catalogs of these. --KarlB (talk) 05:27, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

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Applications of eHealth and mHealth in Mental Healthcare
I would like to offer for expert consideration my essay which is published on LinkedIn/SlideShare in public domain: http://www.slideshare.net/ArmandsKrengelis/applications-of-ehealth-and-mhealth-in-mental-healthcare Armandsk (talk) 09:48, 3 December 2015 (UTC) Armands

Merge with eHealth?
Seems that there's very little here that specifically refers to mobile health that can't also apply to ehealth as well. Timtempleton (talk) 17:57, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * m-health is a subset of e-health (although "e-health" is a much abused term -- see papers by Eysenbach IIRC). Much that applies to m-health does also apply to e-health. But I think there is plenty to say that is distinct. I would rather encourage working on the article, adding more distinct material, and referring to other articles were appropriate. Bondegezou (talk) 18:05, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Page 14 of the World Health Organization's global mHealth survey []has the following: mHealth is a component of eHealth. To date, no standardized definition of mHealth has been established. For the purposes of the survey, the Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) defined mHealth or mobile health as medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices. mHealth involves the use and capitalization on a mobile phone’s core utility of voice and short messaging service (SMS) as well as more complex functionalities and applications including general packet radio service (GPRS), third and fourth generation mobile telecommunications (3G and 4G systems), global positioning system (GPS), and Bluetooth technology. So, essentially mHealth is untethered eHealth. The key differentiator is the mobility, but any features on a mobile phone - SMS texting, GPS location services, apps, bluetooth - can be utilized to serve a mobile health app.  The question then becomes is there enough distinct info about mobile applications and use cases to justify more than a subsection within the eHealth article. As it stands now, I noticed that the eHealth article currently has very little about mHealth, beyond a sentence with a wiki-link. I'll revisit down the road. Timtempleton (talk) 23:14, 27 February 2017 (UTC)