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Ethical considerations of mobile phone use by patients in KwaZulu-Natal: Obstacles for mHealth?

Author(s) -

Caron Jack,

Maurice Mars

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

african journal of primary health care and family medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 2071-2936

pISSN - 2071-2928

DOI - 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.607

Subject(s) - mhealth , confidentiality , mobile phone , telemedicine , medicine , phone , rural area , internet privacy , government (linguistics) , patient confidentiality , demographics , health care , family medicine , medical emergency , nursing , telecommunications , computer security , economic growth , demography , psychological intervention , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , computer science , economics , sociology

mHealth has the potential to facilitate telemedicine services, particularly in the developing world. Concern has been expressed about the confidentiality of health information that is relayed by mobile phone.

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