Necessity of Policy Making for Mobile Health in Iran’s Health System

Amir Musarezaie, Masoud Bahrami, Abbas Ebadi, Hossein Beigi-Harchegani

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Mobile health (mHealth) has many advantages and has become much more prominent in health systems due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence. However, Rahimi et al. (2022)[1] showed that the use of mHealth software is not common among Iranian nurses and patients. Considering that nurses are the largest part of the healthcare workforce, the effect of using mHealth programs by nurses is very important for the future of modern healthcare. The absence of an appropriate information technology infrastructure, weakness culturalization of the use of mHealth services, the high expenses of maintaining health information technology, and inadequate budget allocation are among the challenges in the field of mHealth.[2]......................


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Rahimi R, Fathian A, Khoundabi B, Sadooghiasl A. The use of mobile health applications for professional purposes by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Hayat 2022;28:14-27.

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Moghaddasi H, Sadr SS, Ebne Hoseini Z, Hashemi N. A proposed general framework for Iran’s e-health strategic plan. Iran J Cult Health Promot 2023;7:108-16.


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