A lot of research and usability of mHealth focused only on health applications for personal use (e.g. monitoring calorie intake) (Smahel et al., 2017). Still, significant evidence shows that these applications can be used to improve patients’ quality of life and health and improve patient-provider communication (Soriano et al., 2018; Zapata et al., 2015). 

Results show that mHealth has the potential of information and education related to chronic diseases, such as asthma, diabetes, HIV, coronary heart disease, for which mHealth apps offered significant improvements in reducing severe symptoms and helping with the management of the disease (Soriano et al., 2018; Youfa et al., 2020). 

Moreover, mHealth showed promising results in offering people decision support aid related to physical activity outcomes, smoking cessation, and sexual behavior outcomes (Soriano et al., 2018). 

Another common feature of mHealth lies in improving communication and interaction between patients and providers, results showing better antenatal care, increased attendance rates to health care appointments, improved adherence to treatment, improvement of diagnostic rates, enhanced data collection and reporting medical information and reducing the costs associated with health (Soriano et al., 2018).


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