creators_name: Skaria, GM editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas type: journale datestamp: 2011-12-15 23:59:41 lastmod: 2011-12-15 23:59:41 metadata_visibility: show title: Health Phones: A Potential Game Changer in Health Information Management ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: mhealth; Mobile health; Health information seeking; Health information dissemination abstract: Health education has to be one of the most effective ways to reduce morbidity and mortality in developing countries. We need to deliver vital messages and information to people at the lower quarter of the society to use changing behaviour and practices which can save and protect their lives. It is in this context, use of mobile phones in delivering vital health information is of significance. This article reviews few projects which successfully use mobile phones for health information delivery. date: 2011-04-15 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 10 number: 1 publisher: BS Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. A world of witnesses: When everybody becomes a nomadic monitor, A survey of mobility. The Economist. Apr 10, 2008, 2. Vital Wave Consulting. mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World. United Nations Foundation, Vodafone Foundation. February 2009. Available at http://www.vitalwaveconsulting.com/insights/articles/mHealth.htm 3. Germanakos P, Mourlas C, Samaras G. A Mobile Agent Approach for Ubiquitous and Personalized eHealth Information Systems. Proceedings of the Workshop on 'Personalization for e-Health' of the 10th International Conference on User Modelling (UM'05). Edinburgh, July 29, 2005, pp. 67-70. 4. Ranck J. Time to get mHealth moving. Available at http://www.scidev.net/en/opinions/time-to-get-mhealth-moving-1.html 5. mHealth. Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHealth 6. World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010; monitoring the WSIS targets, A mid-term review. Available at http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-d/opb/ind/D-IND-WTDR-2010-PDF-E.pdf 7. Steven Wilkins MPH. Health information seeking: Who is using a cell phone to find it? Available at www.healthecommunications.wordpress.com 8. PEPFAR's Five-Year Strategy. Available at http://www.pepfar.gov/strategy/document/133251.htm 9. Connecting to a Healthy Future (Updated January 2009). Available at http://www.pepfar.gov/press/80384.htm 10. Otieno PK. Are Mobile Phones Better Learning Tools than Computers? African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF). Available at http://www.amrefusa.org/.../uganda-m4d-conference-presentation-nov2010-.ppt%20-%20United%20States 11. Health Phones: What every family and community has a right to know. Available at www.healthphones.org 12. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Annual Report 2009-10. Available at http://www.trai.gov.in/annualreport/AnnualReport_09_10English.pdf 13. Lavoie KS, Jennings VH, Puleio M, Jha P, Lundgren R. Family Planning via Mobile Phones: Proof-of-concept Testing in India (CycleTel), November 18, 2009. Available at http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307314/2674 citation: Skaria, GM (2011) Health Phones: A Potential Game Changer in Health Information Management. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/7795/1/2011-1-10.pdf