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ZotCare: a flexible, personalizable, and affordable mhealth service provider

The proliferation of Internet-connected health devices and the widespread availability of mobile connectivity have resulted in a wealth of reliable digital health data and the potential for delivering just-in-time interventions. However, leveraging these opportunities for health research requires th...

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Autores principales: Labbaf, Sina, Abbasian, Mahyar, Azimi, Iman, Dutt, Nikil, Rahmani, Amir M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10539601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37781455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1253087
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author Labbaf, Sina
Abbasian, Mahyar
Azimi, Iman
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Rahmani, Amir M.
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description The proliferation of Internet-connected health devices and the widespread availability of mobile connectivity have resulted in a wealth of reliable digital health data and the potential for delivering just-in-time interventions. However, leveraging these opportunities for health research requires the development and deployment of mobile health (mHealth) applications, which present significant technical challenges for researchers. While existing mHealth solutions have made progress in addressing some of these challenges, they often fall short in terms of time-to-use, affordability, and flexibility for personalization and adaptation. ZotCare aims to address these limitations by offering ready-to-use and flexible services, providing researchers with an accessible, cost-effective, and adaptable solution for their mHealth studies. This article focuses on ZotCare’s service orchestration and highlights its capabilities in creating a programmable environment for mHealth research. Additionally, we showcase several successful research use cases that have utilized ZotCare, both in the past and in ongoing projects. Furthermore, we provide resources and information for researchers who are considering ZotCare as their mHealth research solution.
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spelling pubmed-105396012023-09-30 ZotCare: a flexible, personalizable, and affordable mhealth service provider Labbaf, Sina Abbasian, Mahyar Azimi, Iman Dutt, Nikil Rahmani, Amir M. Front Digit Health Digital Health The proliferation of Internet-connected health devices and the widespread availability of mobile connectivity have resulted in a wealth of reliable digital health data and the potential for delivering just-in-time interventions. However, leveraging these opportunities for health research requires the development and deployment of mobile health (mHealth) applications, which present significant technical challenges for researchers. While existing mHealth solutions have made progress in addressing some of these challenges, they often fall short in terms of time-to-use, affordability, and flexibility for personalization and adaptation. ZotCare aims to address these limitations by offering ready-to-use and flexible services, providing researchers with an accessible, cost-effective, and adaptable solution for their mHealth studies. This article focuses on ZotCare’s service orchestration and highlights its capabilities in creating a programmable environment for mHealth research. Additionally, we showcase several successful research use cases that have utilized ZotCare, both in the past and in ongoing projects. Furthermore, we provide resources and information for researchers who are considering ZotCare as their mHealth research solution. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10539601/ /pubmed/37781455 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1253087 Text en © 2023 Labbaf, Abbasian, Azimi, Dutt and Rahmani. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Dutt, Nikil
Rahmani, Amir M.
ZotCare: a flexible, personalizable, and affordable mhealth service provider
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title_short ZotCare: a flexible, personalizable, and affordable mhealth service provider
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10539601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37781455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1253087
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