Abstract

Background: Mobile health (mHealth), a subset of digital health, uses mobile applications, wearables, and monitoring technologies to enhance remote and continuous healthcare services. It aims to revolutionise healthcare through individualised, precise and on-demand care.

Objectives: This review explores current and future applications and potential of mHealth technologies. It examines the rapidly expanding and revolutionary role of mHealth in healthcare delivery and highlights potential barriers and dilemmas.

Methods: A synthesis of recent literature was conducted to provide an overview of mHealth developments, applications, and growing challenges, including data quality, governance, and regulatory gaps.

Results: mHealth applications rapidly expand into multiple health fields, from fitness to mental health and chronic disease. The rapidly evolving mHealth technology promises improved health outcomes through real-time monitoring and tailored interventions. Despite significant advancements, real challenges involving data privacy, accessibility and equity, technology validation, and concerns about commercial influence on governance and regulations further complicate the landscape.

Conclusions: mHealth offers transformative potential for medicine and achieving precise and individualised healthcare. However, addressing data quality, ethical, and governance challenges is critical for sustainable growth and fully realising mHealth’s benefits in addressing global healthcare needs.

Key words : Mobile health, Digital health, Wearables, Remote health monitoring, Digital health applications