mHEALTH: A Systematic Literature Review on Mobile Health Information Management System

Running head: mHEALTH
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1. Systematic Literature Review
1.1 Method of Literature review
Also referred to as mHealth, mobile health is an umbrella term that refers to the use of mobile
devices in the practice of public health and medicine. The term is generally used for referring
to mobile phones, computers, tablets, and smart watches, and has emerged in recent years as
a major segment of electronic health. The purpose of this literature review is to discuss every
aspects of this Mobile Health Information Management system through conducting a
systematic review of various secondary data resources such as Books, Articles, Published
Reports and others. Most of the resources reviewed for this research are collected from online
databases such as NCBI dataase, Google Scholars, Biomedcentral and others. Several
keywords have been used to collect the relevant literatures on this topic such as biomedical
mobile application, medical informatics application, surgery applications for mobile devices
and mobile health application.
Database of Secondary
resources
Key words used for research Boolean functions for
research
 NCBI dataase
 Google Scholars
 Biomedcentral
 Researchgate
biomedical mobile
application
medical informatics
application
surgery applications for
mobile devices and mobile
health application
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 “”
 NOT
 AND
 OR
 Capital letters
After suearching in the databases using the above described key words, the papers were
reviewed individually neglacting thos papers that were not meeting the requirement critaria of
the search porcess. Initailly 28 papers were found after searching 5 times in the above
mentioned databses. After reviewing the paper 12 papers were initailly excuded due to
validity and reliability isues. From the remaining 16 research 7 research were selcted
considering the inclusion and exclusion critaria of this literature review.

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1.2 Systematic research
Authors Year Article Name Findings
Gunter, R., Fernandes-
Taylor, S., Mahnke,
A., Awoyinka, L.,
Schroeder, C.,
Wiseman, J., ... &
Kent, K. C.
2016 Evaluating
patient
usability of an
image-based
mobile health
platform for
postoperative
wound
monitoring
Surgical patients are progressively spending
their time in the usage of mHealth platforms,
with the aim of monitoring wound recovery,
while communicating with the healthcare
providers during post-discharge period.
Notwithstanding the extensive eagerness for
mHealth, lack of studies on user experience
made the researchers explore the patient
usability of an image-based mHealth software
for post-operative wound monitoring. The
researchers found that mean time spent by
patients in training session and application
completion was 4.7 (2.1-12.8) minutes and 5.0
(1.4-16.6) minutes, respectively. Besides high
user satisfaction of 83.3 out of 100, 55.5%
patients independently completed the
application, with maximum difficulty
encountered at the time of taking digital
imageries of surgical wounds. The findings
therefore, suggested that using a smartphone
application increased satisfaction among
patients, in relation to their wound monitoring.
Armstrong, K. A.,
Coyte, P. C., Brown,
M., Beber, B., &
Semple, J. L.
2017 Effect of home
monitoring via
mobile app on
the number of
in-person visits
following
ambulatory
surgery: a
randomized
patients who are subjected to ambulatory
surgery can often follow-up their care through
the use of mobile health application, in
comparison to conventional and in-person
visits after their surgeries. They conducted a
randomised trial among 65 patients and found
that patients who used the mobile application
were able to attend 0.66 in-person visits, in
comparison 1.64 in-person visits that were

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clinical trial found among patients who attended in-person
follow-up care regimen. In addition, patients
who used the mHealth application were found
to send more emails to health care
professionals during the first 30 days
following the surgery (mean, 0.65 vs 0.15;
incidence rate ratio, 4.13; 95% CI, 1.55-
10.99; P = .005), when compared in-person
patient follow-up group.
Symer, M. M.,
Abelson, J. S.,
Milsom, J., McClure,
B., & Yeo, H. L.
2017 A mobile
health
application to
track patients
after
gastrointestinal
surgery: results
from a pilot
study
a pilot study of a novel mHealth application
among patients who were subjected to major
abdominal surgery. The researchers conducted
the study amid 31 patients and found that an
estimated 83.9% patients were able to
complete an application-associated task, for
minimum 70% of the time. Furthermore, 89%
patients suggested that the mHealth
application was considerably easy to monitor
health outcomes. Besides, 1.1 alerts were
generated on an average by the patients, and
most often the patients were able to complete
the single-item photoaffective meter. This
findings also suggested that use of mHealth
application demonstrated the potential to
improve health outcomes among patients who
underwent abdominal surgery.
Jaensson, Dahlberg
and Nilsson
2018 Sex similarities
in
postoperative
recovery and
health care
contacts within
14 days with
females often display an increased
likelihood of manifesting poor recovery after
anaesthesia, when compared to males. The
findings suggested that females aged less than
45 years reported suggestively high global
scores, in relation to SwQoR questionnaire,
concomitant with poor recovery during 1-10