KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fitbit, Mhealth, Telemedicine

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Mobile health - practise of medicine using multimedia technologies: examples: apps, pedometers, fitbit, similar to ehealth (information technology) - health files are online and accessible from one physician to another mhealth applications. Direct provision of care/intervention (via mobile telemedicine) : telemedicine - clinical procedures done by healthcare professionals on patients from different parts of the world (surgeons operating, or doctors evaluating a patient) mhealth and international development. Increased availability and usage of inexpensive mobile phones in low-income nations has stimulated mhealth in developing countries : attempt to use mhealth as much as possible, mobile technologies are much more accessible and affordable in comparison to the past. Increases health care capacity (doctors accessing more patient files) Higher income countries demonstrate more mhealth and ehealth activity : because of the western world"s average economic status, mhealth and ehealth are more accessible and frequently used. Do mhealth technologies address determinants of illness and disease in.