Implications of mhealth service deployments: a comparison between dissimilar european countries

  • Authors:

  • Frederic Vannieuwenborg;Zviad Kirtava;Lambros Lambrinos;Jan Van Ooteghem;Sofie Verbrugge

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, IBBT, Belgium;Partners for Health NGO, National Information Learning Centre, Georgia;Dept. of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus;Dept. of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, IBBT, Belgium;Dept. of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, IBBT, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Telecommunication Economics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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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.