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Using Personal Handheld Computing Devices for Personalizing Healthcare. A Contribution from the IMIA Working Group on
Objectives:
Telehealth has an increasing role in future healthcare. This paper seeks to define and understand recent advances in provision of tele-healthcare through use of personal handheld computing devices, and suggests how such personalized solutions offer further opportunities for progress.
Methods:
We considered the current status of personal handheld computing devices for personalizing healthcare, through review of examples in the literature and web sources.
Results:
We have identified the following four generic roles for personal handheld computing devices in personalized healthcare: educational, social networking and games, monitoring with notifications/ reminders, and online/offline tele-consultations. We discuss examples of these in two settings: healthcare facilities and patient home.
Conclusion:
Advances in latest handheld computing devices have made tele-healthcare more personalized and increasingly possible even in the absence of the care provider.
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