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Over the past decade, technologies have transformed society, education, entertainment, business and now healthcare. Today, these technologies are reaching a level of maturity needed to support the robust and broad scope of healthcare. It has only been recently that smart phones, tablets, wearable information and communication devices as well as smart home hubs for automation and control, environmental sensors, cloud computing, interfacing with high-speed networks have vastly expanded the technological foundation associated with healthcare. This Special Thematic Session will address mHealth for people with disability from several disease, disorder and technology perspectives.
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The organizing chairs of this Special Thematic Session wish to thank all who contributed papers to this session for presentation, publication and the exemplary work that they have conducted. The response to this session was overwhelming and reinforces the importance of this emerging area of focus. Finally, a special thank you to the ICCHP for providing a platform to address this important topic.
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DeRuyter, F., Jones, M. (2018). Mobile Healthcare and mHealth Apps. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94274-2_64
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