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Implications of mHealth Service Deployments: A Comparison between Dissimilar European Countries

Implications of mHealth Service Deployments: A Comparison between Dissimilar European Countries

  • Frederic Vannieuwenborg3,
  • Zviad Kirtava4,
  • Lambros Lambrinos5,
  • Jan Van Ooteghem3 &
  • …
  • Sofie Verbrugge3 
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Abstract

Despite several successful pilot studies, a general implementation and adoption of mobile health services is not often the case. The deployment of eHealth and in particular mHealth services is discussed for three non similar European countries: Cyprus, Georgia, and Belgium. Each country uses the same kind of mobile health services with a different emphasis. By comparing results of a reference case, tele-monitoring heart patients, major implications are identified for a general rollout of services and respective recommendations.

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  • mHealth
  • Tele-monitoring
  • Business model implications

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  1. Dept. of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, IBBT, Belgium

    Frederic Vannieuwenborg, Jan Van Ooteghem & Sofie Verbrugge

  2. Partners for Health NGO, National Information Learning Centre, Georgia

    Zviad Kirtava

  3. Dept. of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

    Lambros Lambrinos

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Vannieuwenborg, F., Kirtava, Z., Lambrinos, L., Van Ooteghem, J., Verbrugge, S. (2012). Implications of mHealth Service Deployments: A Comparison between Dissimilar European Countries. In: Hadjiantonis, A.M., Stiller, B. (eds) Telecommunication Economics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7216. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30382-1_9

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