title: mHealth in Chronic Pain Assessment: Present and Future.
abstract: Chronic Pain (CP) is a condition which is difficult to assess. Existing methods are based on self-management treatments and leaving the big part of the assessment on the patient. According on this method, mHealth applications offer tools to CP patients to self-manage their condition and improve it. All the applications are limited by the type of data they collect and the data based on self-reporting. In the future the applications for CP management will not be based only on this type of data. Multiple types of data will be gathered and analyzed, as well as the specialists will be able to have a better prospective for the patients' pain levels.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pliakos
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece.
authors.forename: Antonios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kefaliakos
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diomidous
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine