ABSTRACT
The introduction of information and communications technology (ICT) in health care, especially the application of mobile devices, commonly referred to as mHealth, has createdthe potential to provide ef€cient health services that are available anytime and anywhere(Kern and Jaron, 2003). Akter et al. (2010a) de€ned mHealth as “a personalized and interactive service whose main goal is to provide ubiquitous and universal access to medical advice and information to any user at any time over amobile platform.” mHealth, using mobile phone and multimedia technologies, has recently been successfully used to improve access to health care, timeliness of diagnosis, dissemination of health education, emergency medical response, and completeness of disease surveillance in resource-poor settings (Chang et al., 2011; Istepanian and Lacal, 2003; Rajatonirina et al., 2012; Seidenberg et al., 2012), and evidence in favor of its effectiveness is accumulating in anumber of settings.
