Mobile Technology Applications in the Healthcare Industry for Disease Management and Wellness

Abstract

Technology is an unavoidable fact of today's life. Attractive advantages of wireless technology accelerated the rapid development of mobile applications. With the increase of the usage of mobile devices in the recent years, new solutions come to mind including mobile technologies to fulfill requirements or suggest better solutions in the vast area of medical informatics to the existing ones. Augmentation in the area of wireless technology positively affects the medical applications. In the healthcare industry, mobile applications provide better personalized health care, disease management and services to patients and their relatives, as well as a better and flexible way of communicating with physicians, patients and medical suppliers. It is obvious that the applications using mobile technologies has the potential to bring better conditions both for the patients for their disease management and for the humanity for checking their self wellness. In this paper, the current mobile technology utilized in healthcare such as relapse prevention in schizophrenia, aged people's care and wellness, diagnosis and management of attention-deficit etc. is reviewed in detail outlining the current mobile technologies and wireless revolution of today and examining some of the outstanding applications using these technologies in the clinical area. The results of this study can provide clues to researchers to further the mobile technology in healthcare. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).