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Modeling Medical Services with Mobile Health Applications

The rapid development of mobile health technology (m-Health) provides unprecedented opportunities for improving health services. As the bridge between doctors and patients, mobile health applications enable patients to communicate with doctors through their smartphones, which is becoming more and mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Wang, Zhenfei, Zhang, Liying, Ma, Ling, Liu, Bing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5914102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1385034
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Sumario:The rapid development of mobile health technology (m-Health) provides unprecedented opportunities for improving health services. As the bridge between doctors and patients, mobile health applications enable patients to communicate with doctors through their smartphones, which is becoming more and more popular among people. To evaluate the influence of m-Health applications on the medical service market, we propose a medical service equilibrium model. The model can balance the supply of doctors and demand of patients and reflect possible options for both doctors and patients with or without m-Health applications in the medical service market. In the meantime, we analyze the behavior of patients and the activities of doctors to minimize patients' full costs of healthcare and doctors' futility. Then, we provide a resolution algorithm through mathematical reasoning. Lastly, based on artificially generated dataset, experiments are conducted to evaluate the medical services of m-Health applications.