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Advances and Opportunities of Mobile Health in the Postpandemic Era: Smartphonization of Wearable Devices and Wearable Deviceization of Smartphones

JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 1 author, 1 centre

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This narrative review discusses trends in mobile health (mHealth) technology, proposing that integrating sensors into smartphones and making wearables more smartphone-like can overcome current limitations and accelerate the popularization of digital health services.

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The central proposal is to overcome existing mHealth limitations by promoting the 'smartphonization of wearable devices' and the 'wearable deviceization of smartphones,' leveraging sensor-integrated displays for real-time health analysis. The authors suggest this approach can maximize mHealth's potential, leading to its popularization and creating a new paradigm for digital medicine in the postpandemic era, facilitating personalized disease prediction, prevention, and treatment.

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PMC10823426

Advances and Opportunities of Mobile Health in the Postpandemic Era: Smartphonization of Wearable Devices and Wearable Deviceization of Smartphones

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

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Abstract Mobile health (mHealth) with continuous real-time monitoring is leading the era of digital medical convergence. Wearable devices and smartphones optimized as personalized health management platforms enable disease prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and even treatment. Ubiquitous and accessible medical services offered through mHealth strengthen universal health coverage to facilitate service use without discrimination. This viewpoint investigates the latest trends in mHealth technology, which are comprehensive in terms of form factors and detection targets according to body attachment location and type. Insights and breakthroughs from the perspective of mHealth sensing through a new form factor and sensor-integrated display overcome the problems of existing mHealth by proposing a solution of smartphonization of wearable devices and the wearable deviceization of smartphones. This approach maximizes the infinite potential of stagnant mHealth technology and will present a new milestone leading to the popularization of mHealth. In the postpandemic era, innovative mHealth solutions through the smartphonization of wearable devices and the wearable deviceization of smartphones could become the standard for a new paradigm in the field of digital medicine.

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Wonki Hong. Advances and Opportunities of Mobile Health in the Postpandemic Era: Smartphonization of Wearable Devices and Wearable Deviceization of Smartphones. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. (2024). https://doi.org/10.2196/48803

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Wonki Hong

1Department of Digital Healthcare, Daejeon University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea