Title
A strategic approach to m-health.
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1177/1460458209337445
HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL
Keywords
Field
DocType
health strategy,m-health,mobile health
Health sector,Health care,Critical success factor,Success factors,Road map,Knowledge management,Mainstream,Medicine
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15.0
3.0
1460-4582
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.19
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. C. Norris1384.75
R. S. Stockdale2181.19
S. Sharma3181.19