TY - JOUR A1 - Santos-Lozano, Alejandro AU - Baladrón, Carlos AU - Martín Hernández, Juan AU - Morales Rojas, Javier Salvador AU - Ruilope Urioste, Luis Miguel AU - Lucía Mulas, Alejandro T1 - mHealth and the legacy of John Snow Y1 - 2018 SN - 0140-6736 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/7310 AB - On Jan 14, 2018, during a tense final touchdown in a US National Football League playoff game, numerous Apple Watch users received an alert from their device telling them that they were having potentially harmful arrhythmias. Smartphones and wearable technology are increasingly used as public health tools because billions of people worldwide are digital users. In 2020, more than 6 billion people will have smartphone subscriptions. Clinicians and researchers can use these devices to effortlessly monitor patients' health and behaviour indicators in real time. KW - mhealth KW - Portable devices KW - Medicina KW - Informática en Salud KW - Sistema de alerta KW - Deporte KW - Datos estadísticos LA - eng ER -