m-Healthcare Approaches for Improving Outpatient Discharge Adherence in Self-Management of Chronic Diseases

Working Paper #8 by Mihail Cocosila and Norm Archer, May 2004.

• Mobile IT could be a novel route to chronic disease self-management.
• Non-adherence undermines healing efforts in disease management programs.
• The paper analyzed adherence factors and formulated concrete interventions.

Six interventions

• Six intervention types were weighed by expected benefits and challenges.
• They were monitoring, reminding, consulting, informing, supporting and educating.
• The work outlined business aspects of mobile healthcare.
• It closed with principle questions for further research.

Keywords: mobile healthcare (m-Healthcare), patient adherence.