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eMobility – Strategic Applications AgendaHealth and InclusionII. Health and InclusionCore vision: ―Support individuals and professionals via future mobile applications to enhance healthcaredelivery, clinical performance and lifestyle‖II.1. Introduction"Health informatics and telemedicine" is one of the key areas of change in the health and social services sector.Mobile technologies enable in particular new services that could lead to a dramatic change in health organizationsand healthcare delivery practices. We will refer in the following to the concept of ―M-health‖, defined as the‗emerging mobile communication and network technologies for healthcare systems' [1], including sensors,WLANs, satellite, 3G, 3.5G and future generation (e.g. LTE/4G) mobile systems.Recent changes in society demand for new specific services. Such changes include an ageing society and ageingworkforce, increasing life expectancy, changing family forms with an increase in people living alone. Newchallenges relevant to the changes above have to be faced, such as chronic and degenerative diseases,addictions, obesity, depression, etc.Mobile services can have a massive impact on all aspects of healthcare, from delivering the information peopleneed to lead a healthy lifestyle to making healthcare systems more efficient and responsive and providing 'in thehome' and mobile healthcare technologies.Biosensors and other new medical technologies reduce costs dramatically and lead to do-it-yourself home care.Recent advances in image and wireless video transmission will enable remote diagnosis also in wireless andmobile scenarios (e.g. ambulances). Regardless of technology advances, the health sector currently lags behindother sectors in the use of recent advances in information and communications technology. This is both due totechnical barriers and to limited professionals‘ adoption of mobile technologies for healthcare. Table II.1 reportsthe main factors having an impact on health professionals‘ adoptions of mobile technologies for healthcare.Table II.1 – Research issues on health professionals‘ adoptions of mobile technologies for healthcare work.End-user factorsTechnologicalAttributes1. Software-device fit and adaptability [12].2. Type, nature, age of devices [12]-[15].3. End-user interface problems (data entry, display visibility,navigation, locating information, speed) [16] [17].4. Medical Contents developments [16] [17].5. Data security and patient confidentiality [18].6. Speed, nature and type of wireless telecommunication bandwidth[12] [19].7. Devices connectivity and Interactivity [12]8. [20].9. Software design & development [21].10. Negative impacts of legacy technologies [12].11. Power requirements for devices[22]3