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mHealth and the legacy of John Snow

Authors :
Alejandro Lucia
Luis M. Ruilope
Carlos Baladrón
Alejandro Santos-Lozano
Juan Martín-Hernández
Javier S. Morales
Source :
The Lancet. 391:1479-1480
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2018.

Abstract

On Jan 14, 2018, during a tense final touchdown in a US National Football League playoff game, numerous Apple Watch users received an alert from their device telling them that they were having potentially harmful arrhythmias. Smartphones and wearable technology are increasingly used as public health tools because billions of people worldwide are digital users. In 2020, more than 6 billion people will have smartphone subscriptions. Clinicians and researchers can use these devices to effortlessly monitor patients' health and behaviour indicators in real time. Sin financiación 59.102 JCR (2018) Q1, 2/160 Medicine, General & Internal 15.871 SJR (2018) Q1, 5/2844 Medicine (miscellaneous) No data IDR 2018 UEM

Details

ISSN :
01406736
Volume :
391
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Lancet
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....22e500656ef8acaa6b0c1420147a7683
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30783-9