Current Studies in Healthcare and Technology

Abstract

In Chapter 3, according to reports, the first mobile health applications were created in the 1960s to track the health of astronauts in space. Wireless devices that monitor an individual’s heart rate while they are exercising were created in the years that followed, and with the advent of smartphones, mobile/web-based health applications began to gain popularity. Mobile/Web-based applications are widely used in health promotion, diagnosis, clinical treatment and care, home care and follow-up, patient and staff training, counseling, and coaching. Although there are many different types of use in health, mobile/web-based applications can be listed as telehealth applications, text messaging, smartphone applications, home care technologies, etc. Mobile/web-based applications have advantages as well as disadvantages.There are short-term results related to mobile/ web-based health applications and there are no long-term outputs, and time is required for the formation of sufficient outputs that prove efficiency/effectiveness. In this chapter; It is aimed to examine the usage areas and purposes, types, advantages and disadvantages of mobile/web-based applications in the field of health with literature examples.