title: Using cell phones for chronic disease prevention and management.
abstract: A systematic review of current literature for telemedicine applications that use a mobile phone was performed in MEDLINE using the following keywords: mobile phone, cell phone, and cellular phone. 23 of 994 articles were selected for their use of a mobile phone in a disease management telemedicine application. The feasibility of mobile phone based telemedicine applications is mostly supported by the literature review.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Skinner
authors.forename: Craig James
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Skinner
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Finkelstein
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D040421:Cell Phone / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D016239:MEDLINE; D008396:Maryland; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*