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Smartphones are increasingly functioning as powerful platforms for mobile and participatory healthcare applications, enabling remote monitoring and management of chronic conditions despite existing barriers to adoption. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To review the evolving landscape of mobile healthcare smartphone applications and showcase a remote monitoring architecture for older adults managing multiple chronic conditions.

January 1, 2011BioMedical Engineering OnLineOpen Access

How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX

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MBMaged N. Kamel BoulosUniversity of Lisbon SWSteve WheelerUniversity of Idaho CTCarlos TavaresInternational Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory

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Technology review demonstrates smartphone applications enable remote chronic disease monitoring in older adults, highlighting their potential for participatory healthcare.

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To review the evolving landscape of mobile healthcare smartphone applications and showcase a remote monitoring architecture for older adults managing multiple chronic conditions.
Surveyed commercial and emerging healthcare applications across major operating platforms including Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows.
Developed and evaluated an Android application within the EU-funded eCAALYX project (2009–2012) connecting a sensor-equipped wearable garment and GPS telemetry to a clinical server.
Identified diverse application classes spanning fitness tracking, ambient assisted living, chronic disease management, public health surveillance, and professional medical education.
Demonstrated technical feasibility of capturing vital signs via wearable body area networks and streaming real-time physiological and location data to remote clinicians.
Identified critical implementation bottlenecks, including battery consumption, cellular bandwidth constraints, user interface accessibility, and data privacy safeguards.

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Boulos et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0fff612badbc352aff1d9f https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-925x-10-24

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Technology review demonstrates smartphone applications enable remote chronic disease monitoring in older adults, highlighting their potential for participatory healthcare.

How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX

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How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX

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