The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery-particularly as experienced by patients and other users-are the focus of this forward-looking volume. Its detailed sociotechnical perspective takes in factors influencing patient and provider adoption of technological advances, in addition to the well-known cost and accessibility advantages. Enlightening reports show mobile health technologies in multiple contexts as an impetus for behavioral change, a means of monitoring health changes, a growing trend in service delivery, and an emerging health frontier worldwide. Together, these chapters point to the continued expansion-and global reach-of mobile technology in the next stage of healthcare services.

Included in the coverage:

• Behavior change techniques used in mobile applications targeting physical activity: a systematic review
  
• Mobile health integration in pregnancy
  
• Unintended users, uses, and consequences of mobile weight loss apps: using eating disorders as a case study
  
• Intention vs. perception: understanding the differences in physicians' attitudes towards mobile health applications
  
• HealthGuide: a personalized mobile patient guidance system
  
• Adoption of sensors in mobile health
  

Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies is salient reading for researchers interested in mobile health development and implementation as well as technology adoption, and mobile health system developers and managers who are interested in the implications of mobile health use by patients and/or healthcare professionals. It can also be used for courses in technology adoption and health technologies.           

Part I - Behavioral Change in mHealth

Use of Persuasion Strategies in Mobile Health Applications
Behavior Change Techniques Used in Mobile Applications Targeting Physical Activity: A Systematic Review
Exploring Intention on Continuous Use of Mobile Health Applications Designed by Persuasive Technology: "Adimsayar" Case Study
Part II - Monitoring and tracking with mHealth
Mobile Health Integration in Pregnancy
Utilizing M-Health Applications in Emergency Medical Services of Turkey
User Adoption and Evaluation of Mobile Health Applications: The Case for Physical Activity Monitoring
Unintended Users, Uses, and Consequences of Mobile Weight Loss Apps: Using Eating Disorders as a Case Study
Part III - mHealth use and adoption in healthcare delivery
Understanding Cross-Cultural Requirements in m-Health Design: Findings of a Usability Study of Indian Health Professionals
Intention vs. Perception: Understanding the Differences in Physi-cians' Attitudes towards MobileHealth Applications
HealthGuide: A Personalized Mobile Patient Guidance System
 Mobile Applications User Trend Analysis of Turkish Physicians in Digital Environments
Acceptance of Mobile Homecare Technologies: An Empirical Investigation on Patients with Chronic Diseases
Part IV - Global perspectives and issues with mHealth
Improving Access to Health Services in Sub- Saharan Africa Using Mobile and Wireless Technologies
Big Data in mHealth
Adoption of Sensors in Mobile Health
Adoption of Internet of Things in Healthcare Organizations.<p></p>