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Mobile Health (mHealth) is the intersection between Electronic Health (eHealth) and smartphone technology. The coverage of mHealth includes the acquisition, manipulation, classification, and transmission of health-related information. The end-to-end link used for transmitting health data normally initiates from biomedical sensors usually attached to the user’s body. In the typical scenarios, the sensory information is collected by portable devices with relevant applications running on them. The information bits are transmitted through wireless and cloud networks. Various cloud-based stakeholders (e.g., doctors, medical labs, insurance, medical database, and family/coach) may be on the receiving ends of the end-to-end bidirectional paths.
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Adibi, S. (2015). Introduction. In: Adibi, S. (eds) Mobile Health. Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12817-7_1
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