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

> MeRC Working Paper #8 by Cocosila and Archer, May 2004: six mobile healthcare interventions, from monitoring to educating, to improve outpatient adherence.

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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.