An electronic database containing a record listing of all patients registered at its associated healthcare facility. Client information stored in the index is assigned a unique identification code so that the patient's health data may be easily yet securely accessed. Healthcare facilities such as clinics, hospitals, and private practices use a master patient index to manage accurate and organized client records.
EHR Intelligence
A medical device is "an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component part, or accessory which is:
recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States Pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them,
intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or
intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and which does not achieve any of its primary intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its primary intended purposes."
US Food and Drug Administration
The delivery of health care services via mobile communication devices such as cell phones. Applications range from targeted text messages to promote healthy behaviour to wide-scale alerts about disease outbreaks. The proliferation of cell phones across the globe, even in locales without basic health care infrastructure, is spurring the growth of mHealth in developing countries. Also known as mobile health.
UN Foundation , mHealth Alliance , WWHI
Mobile medical apps are medical devices that are mobile apps, meet the definition of a medical device and are an accessory to a regulated medical device or transform a mobile platform into a regulated medical device. Some mHealth apps offer advice and tracking functionality,, some are designed to transmit information between doctors and patients), some are meant for doctors to keep accurate, accessible records.
US Food and Drug Administration
A company that acts as a middleman between application or content providers and mobile carriers. An aggregator primarily provides message traffic throughput to multiple wireless operators or other aggregators, and often rents virtual numbers and short codes to application/content providers.
A mobile application or "mobile app" is defined as a software ap plication that can be executed (run) on a mobile platform (i.e., a handheld commercial off-the-shelf computing platform, with or without wireless connectivity).
US Food and Drug Administration
A mechanism for mobile applications to securely integrate and interact with the eHealth record system and allow consumers only to access their eHealth record.
Australian Government, Department of Health
Term which refers to the ability of a person to use applications and solutions on a mobile phone.
UNESCO
Generally, an MVNO is defined as an operator that offers mobile services to end users but that does not have a governmental license to use its own radio frequency. Instead, an MVNO has access to one, or in theory, perhaps more, of the radio elements of a mobile operator and is able to offer services to subscribers using such elements. These elements include the radio transmission link, its control functions and the mobility management functions that keep track of exactly where mobile handsets are located so that calls can be delivered to them.
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
Messaging service that allows to exchange multimedia files as messages. MMS supports the transmission of a variety of media types: text, picture, audio, video, or a combination of all four. The Multimedia Message can easily be created by snapping a photo with the phone camera, or by using images and sounds stored previously in the phone. Most current mobile phones and operator networks support MMS.
