It is widely expected that m-health will become increasingly important in e-health. For example, Norris et al. (2009) did a pilot study on m-health sustainability strategies. They interviewed a wide range of practitioners in healthcare and reached the conclusion
that m-health had played and would continue to play a crucial role in healthcare. Separately, a report published by Vital Wave Consulting focused on the opportunities of mobile technology for healthcare in the developing world. After going over the potential of using mobile phones to improve healthcare in the developing world, it demonstrated that mobile technology, especially smart phone-based applications, improved the efficiency of healthcare delivery, and ultimately made healthcare more effective
(Vital Wave Consulting, 2009). These papers emphasized that m-health played a crucial role in healthcare. In rural areas in particular, affordable and efficient healthcare could be provided through m-health applications