Use of smart and wearable devices in health sector and
adoption of produced medical data by an integrated
Health Care computer system in Greece
Accepted 9th
August, 2020
Georgia Papaconstantinou1, Efstratios
Koletsis1 and George Pavlidis2
1Department of Health Science
University of Patras 261 10 Patras Greece. 2Department of Computer Engineering
and Informatics University of Patras Greece.
The
term “mobile health” or alternatively “m-Health”
is increasingly used over the last years. The
term refers to the medical and public health
practice supported by mobile devices, such as
mobile phones, patient monitoring devices,
Personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other
wireless devices. The great challenge for IT
specialists in health sector is the use of such
devices in order to merge medical data, produced
by these devices, with electronic patient
records, due to the huge volumes of data
produced and as a consequence the difficulties
in storing and processing these data. In the
current research we present a variety of
sensors, smart mobile devices and m-Health
applications. In addition, we describe the
difficulties in storing and processing these
data and we suggest that the implementation of
distributed information systems could possibly
encounter these problems.
Key words: Computer science in health,
e-health, m-health, mobile health applications,
wearable devices.
This is an open access article
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properly cited.
Cite this article as:
Papaconstantinou G Koletsis E Pavlidis G (2020). Use of smart and wearable
devices in health sector and adoption of produced medical data by an integrated
Health Care computer system in Greece. Acad. J. Sci. Res.
8(8): 250-255.
