Smartphone as a Personal, Pervasive Health Informatics Services Platform: Literature Review

摘要: Objectives: The article provides an overview of current trends in personal sensor, signal and imaging informatics, that are based on emerging mobile computing communications technologies enclosed a smartphone enabling the provision personal, pervasive health informatics services. Methods: reviews examples these from PubMed Google scholar literature search engines, which, by no means claim to be complete, as field is evolving some recent advances may not documented yet. Results: There exist critical technological surveyed technologies, employed improvement diagnosis, acute chronic treatment rehabilitation services, well education training healthcare practitioners. However, most trend relates routine application prevention/wellness sector, helping its users self-care stay healthy. Conclusions: Smartphone-based services exist, but still have long way go become everyday, personalized healthcare-provisioning tool medical clinical practice. Key main challenge for their widespread adoption involve lack user acceptance striving variable credibility reliability applications solutions they a) evidence-based approach; b) low levels professional involvement design content; c) provided unreliable way, influencing negatively usability; and, cases, d) being industry-driven, hence exposing bias information provided, example towards particular types or intervention procedures.