ABSTRACT
Mobile health (mHealth) is a recent technological evolution in electronic health (eHealth) that incorporates smartphone technology in a health-care industry environment (Maeder, 2012; Varn€eld et al., 2012). The innovation, mHealth, is an eHealth practice that is widely supported by mobile devices and smartphones meant to capture and provide health-related information from various sources. This implies that healthcare information can be stored, retrieved, and analyzed in a more sophisticated way. As such, the mHealth setting enables or enhances real-time as well as off-line decision analysis. In this connection, decision makers and policy makers can make use of this development to make informed decisions, in the short, medium, and long terms. By and large, mHealth is a system that goes beyond health-care coordination and information storage, to enhance decision support (WHO, 2011). Therefore, mHealth should be viewed as more than just a collection of devices and applications; it extends the utility and ef€ciency of health-care infrastructures through integration with enterprise systems (Dolan, 2010; Krohn and Metcalf, 2012).
