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12-13-2015

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Context-aware mobile patient monitoring provides new opportunities to deliver medical care. Despite an exploding number of mobile patient monitoring applications, we lack a holistic and comprehensive taxonomy of context dimensions in mobile patient monitoring and thus fail to fully understand context-aware behavior. In a design science approach we build conceptual models for both context and context-awareness in mobile patient monitoring. We instantiate and evaluate the suggested artifacts in a field study. Our primary contributions are conceptual models for context dimensions in mobile patient monitoring and insights into the context-aware behavior of these applications. This study reveals the importance of various stakeholders (e.g., care provider and relatives) and disease-specific insights from medical research contributing to the value creation in context-aware mobile patient monitoring. We further illustrate that current solutions offer only restricted set of context-aware features, not taking full advantage of sensor-enabled mobile devices to collect continuous contextual health information.

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Dec 13th, 12:00 AM

The Anatomy of Context-aware Mobile Patient Monitoring

Context-aware mobile patient monitoring provides new opportunities to deliver medical care. Despite an exploding number of mobile patient monitoring applications, we lack a holistic and comprehensive taxonomy of context dimensions in mobile patient monitoring and thus fail to fully understand context-aware behavior. In a design science approach we build conceptual models for both context and context-awareness in mobile patient monitoring. We instantiate and evaluate the suggested artifacts in a field study. Our primary contributions are conceptual models for context dimensions in mobile patient monitoring and insights into the context-aware behavior of these applications. This study reveals the importance of various stakeholders (e.g., care provider and relatives) and disease-specific insights from medical research contributing to the value creation in context-aware mobile patient monitoring. We further illustrate that current solutions offer only restricted set of context-aware features, not taking full advantage of sensor-enabled mobile devices to collect continuous contextual health information.