mHealth in developing countries: design, implementation and benefits of mHealth

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This mHealth book is available for free today(5th April 2015).

http://www.amazon.com/mHealth-develo...rds=healthcare

There is a big disparity in delivery of healthcare services between developing and developed countries. Emerging economies have various disadvantages like poor socio economic status, lack of health awareness, etc. Higher mortality rate is observed. On top of that there is acute shortage of skilled doctors. While governments of such countries have taken various initiatives to improve the healthcare delivery in rural areas, significant challenges still persist in both access to care and ensuring effectiveness of care. In this book, we first describe requirements and challenges associated with healthcare delivery in emerging economies. Then we describe architecture, design and implementation of two mHealth systems (iASHA and iReduce) in detail. We also discuss how iASHA system can help prevent various medical malpractices in developing countries and how iReduce system can deter doctors from recommending unnecessary medical tests just to bump up his/her profit. Next, we provide summary of existing mHealth systems, following that we discuss how mHealth paradigms can address healthcare delivery challenges. Then we describe future roadmap for mHealth systems. The book is concluded with a set of questions and answers.

This mHealth book also provides answers for "mHealth system" related questions:
1. What are the main requirements for a mHealth system to be successful in emerging economies?
2. What are the challenges faced in developing countries to deploy a mHealth system?
3. How to provide tele consultation in areas where data connection is slow and unreliable?
4. How can mHealth solution mitigate epidemic risk?
5. How can government plan better using mHealth solution?
6. How can mHealth system help preventing medical malpractices?
7. How can mHealth solution help preventing pilferage of medicines?
9. In addition to that images uploaded of the patient can be compared to identify possible duplicate entries and health worker responsible for the same can be immediately intimated.
10. How can mHealth system work in extended power outage situations?
11. How can mHealth system determine medical tests a patient needs to undergo?
12. How can mHealth system deter doctor from recommending redundant tests?