Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: May 7, 2023
Date Accepted: Dec 20, 2023
Advances and opportunities of mobile health in the post-pandemic era: Smartphonisation of wearable devices and wearable deviceisation of smartphones
ABSTRACT
Mobile health with continuous real-time monitoring is leading the era of digital medical convergence. Wearable devices and smartphones optimised as personalised health management platforms enable prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and even disease treatment. Ubiquitous and accessible medical services offered through mobile health (mHealth) strengthen universal health coverage to facilitate service use without discrimination. This viewpoint investigates the latest trends in mobile healthcare technology, which are comprehensive in terms of form factors and detection targets according to body attachment location and type. Insights and breakthroughs from the perspective of noble healthcare sensing through new form factor and sensor-integrated display overcome the problems of existing mHealth by proposing a solution of smartphonisation of wearable devices and wearable deviceisation of smartphones. This approach maximises the infinite potential of stagnant mobile healthcare technology and will present a new milestone leading to the popularisation of mHealth. In the post-pandemic era, innovative mHealth solutions through the smartphonisation of wearable devices and wearable deviceisation of smartphones could become the standard for a new paradigm in the field of digital medicine.
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