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DrTalyaPorat

Faculty of Engineering, Dyson School of Design Engineering

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@article{Karampela:2019:10.2196/14394,
author = {Karampela, M and Isomursu, M and Porat, T and Maramis, C and Mountford, N and Giunti, G and Chouvarda, I and Lehocki, F},
doi = {10.2196/14394},
journal = {Journal of Medical Internet Research},
pages = {1--24},
title = {Connected health: A systematic mapping study},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/14394},
volume = {21},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Background:This paper examines the development of the Connected Health research landscape with a view on providing a historical perspective on existing Connected Health research. Connected Health has become a rapidly growing research field as our healthcare system is facing pressured to become more proactive and patient centred.Objective:We aimed to identify the extent and coverage of the current body of knowledge in Connected Health. With this, we want to identify which topics have drawn the attention of Connected health researchers, and if there are gaps or interdisciplinary opportunities for further research.Methods:We used a systematic mapping study that combines scientific contributions from research on medicine, business, computer science and engineering. We analyse the papers with seven classification criteria, publication source, publication year, research types, empirical types, contribution types research topic and the condition studied in the paper.Results:Altogether, our search resulted in 208 papers which were analysed by a multidisciplinary group of researchers. Our results indicate a slow start for Connected Health research but a more recent steady upswing since 2013. The majority of papers proposed healthcare solutions (37%) or evaluated Connected Health approaches (23%). Case studies (28%) and experiments (26%) were the most popular forms of scientific validation employed. Diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and heart conditions are among the most prevalent conditions studied.Conclusions:We conclude that Connected Health research seems to be an established field of research, which has been growing strongly during the last five years. There seems to be more focus on technology driven research with a strong contribution from medicine, but business aspects of Connected health are not as much studied.
AU  - Karampela,M
AU  - Isomursu,M
AU  - Porat,T
AU  - Maramis,C
AU  - Mountford,N
AU  - Giunti,G
AU  - Chouvarda,I
AU  - Lehocki,F
DO  - 10.2196/14394
EP  - 24
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1438-8871
SP  - 1
TI  - Connected health: A systematic mapping study
T2  - Journal of Medical Internet Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/14394
UR  - https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/14394/accepted
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/72757
VL  - 21
ER  -
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