The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

By C. Free, G. Phillips, Louise Watson, Leandro Galli, L. Felix, P. Edwards, Vikram Patel, A. Haines. PLoS Medicine, 2013

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Caroline Free and colleagues systematically review controlled trials of mobile technology interventions to improve health care delivery processes and show that current interventions give only modest benefits and that high-quality trials measuring clinical outcomes are needed.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health Information Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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mHealth 2.0: Experiences, Possibilities, and Perspectives (2014, background): “However, text message reminders were no more effective than postal or phone call reminders and texting reminders to patients who persistently missed appointments did not significantly change the number of cancelled appointments [28].”
Interpretable Predictions of Clinical Outcomes with An Attention-based Recurrent Neural Network (2017, methodology): “We choose gamma over the logarithmic range of [10-2, 1] and regularization penalty parameter C over the logarithmic range of [10-2, 10].”
Mobile-health: A review of current state in 2015 (2015, background): “These services are having a great impact on healthcare industry and truly revolutionizing the healthcare delivery [35].”
Economic and Social Development along the Urban-Rural Continuum: New Opportunities to Inform Policy (2021, background): “For example, mobile health clinics and temporary facilities can provide health-care for remote populations (Free et al., 2013).”
The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic Review (2013, neutral): “A cu te d is e a se B o lle 20 09 [1 33 ] U H U L L L L”
Scaling Up mHealth: Where Is the Evidence? (2013, background): “Two recent systematic reviews [23,24] found modest and suggestive evidence for the benefits of mHealth technology, and while both reviews recommended implementation, they argued that high quality (and adequately powered) clinical trials that measure clinical outcomes are essential.”
Impact of mHealth Chronic Disease Management on Treatment Adherence and Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review (2015, neutral): “Another review, focused on the impact of SMS interventions, found that text messaging increased adherence to antiretroviral treatment with reductions in viral load and biochemically verified smoking cessation, yet these effects were “small and of borderline clinical importance” [9].”
The emerging field of mobile health (2015, background): “Several recent meta-analyses and systematic reviews conclude that high-quality evidence is lacking for the use of mHealth to effect behavioral changes or to manage chronic diseases, inpatient care, or health care delivery ( 24 – 26 ).”
Review and Evaluation of Mindfulness-Based iPhone Apps (2015, background): “While Web-based interventions are gaining empirical support [12], mobile interventions are still in their infancy [13].”