Empowering the Aging with Mobile Health: A mHealth Framework for Supporting Sustainable Healthy Lifestyle Behavior.

摘要: Healthcare providers are shifting to a value-based model that acknowledges the importance of healthy lifestyle for managing chronic disease and mental health. This approach empowers patients adopt and/or sustain choices through use innovative technologies-providing beneficial ways delivering health literacy, self-monitoring, patient-provider collaboration. Such pathways have potential enable management growing U.S. cohort-the "baby boomer" generation (BBG)-who at risk developing heart disease, stroke, arthritis, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc. In this paper, we argue new mHealthy (MLM) uses mobile technology as means engage BBG consumers in establish their role self-care decision-making, well collaboration can significantly impact sustainable behaviors. By merging domains informatics human factors psychology, MLM addresses complex challenges associated with collaborative work, while offering healthcare framework BBGs quest self-manage physical lifestyle. A use-case highlights solutions team-based clinical counseling. Finally, recommendations future tools outlined support patient access personal eTools, information, services.