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A strategic approach to m-health

A.C. Norris

Centre for Mobile Computing, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 102 904, NSMC, Auckland, New Zealand, t.norris{at}massey.ac.nz

R.S. Stockdale

Centre for Mobile Computing, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 102 904, NSMC, Auckland, New Zealand, r.j.stockdale{at}massey.ac.nz

S. Sharma

Centre for Mobile Computing, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 102 904, NSMC, Auckland, New Zealand

This article proposes a strategic framework or road map for sustainable m-health. The drivers and critical success factors of this framework are identified from the literature and a survey of the views of senior strategists in the New Zealand health sector. The success factors are associated with key tasks in the framework that identify suitable applications, channel development activity, and confirm activity by continued support of innovation whilst moving successful applications into the mainstream. The two most important outcomes from the research are that m-health has a crucial, even inevitable, role to play in future healthcare, and the development and exploitation of m-health demands a top-down strategy or framework to match and encourage bottom-up innovation by healthcare practioners. Without such a strategy to guide (but not direct) innovation, many otherwise valuable advances will not be sustainable and resources will be wasted on questionable applications that will slow development and reduce credibility.

Key Words: health strategy • m-health • mobile health

Health Informatics Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, 244-253 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1460458209337445
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