Health informatics — Survey of mHealth projects in low and middle income countries (LMIC)

This document surveys currently available eHealth frameworks and explores possible mobile health (mHealth) frameworks that could be used in low and middle income countries (LMICs).

The survey covered ongoing national mHealth projects in LMICs where some emerging technologies such as zero configuration and proximity computing are applicable. These technologies are especially relevant when the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure is not established in those countries.

Main sections:

· Scope

· mHealth survey around the world

· Use case: Education and awareness

· Use case: Remote data collection

· Use case: Remote monitoring

· Use case: Communication and training for healthcare workers

· Use case: Disease and epidemic outbreak tracking

· Use case: Diagnostics and treatment support

· Use case: Sharing a medical image annotated with a region of interest

· Interoperable mHealth frameworks survey for LMIC