title: Mobile health in China: current status and future development.
abstract: Mobile health applications offer unique opportunities for monitoring patient progress, providing education materials to patients and family members, receiving personalized prompts and support, collecting ecologically valid data, and using self-management interventions when and where they are needed. Mobile health application services to mental illness have evidenced success in Western countries. However, they are still in the initial stage of development in China. The purpose of this paper is to identify needs for mobile health in China, present major mobile health products and technology in China, introduce mobile and digital psychiatric services, and discuss ethical issues and challenges in mobile health development in a country with the largest population in the world.
authors.affiliation: Florida A & M University, United States. Electronic address: huijun.li@famu.edu.
authors.forename: Huijun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China.
authors.forename: Tianhong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Florida A & M University, United States.
authors.forename: Hongmei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.affiliation: Guangzhou Brain Hospital, Affiliated Psychiatric Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China.
authors.forename: Yingmei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Florida State University, United States.
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China.
authors.forename: Jijun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D012648:Self Care; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000639:trends*
keywords: China; Ethical issues; Mobile health; Status