Home-based care nurse Alex Ngalande works on a laptop computer at St. Gabriel's Hospital in Namitete, Malawi. © 2008 Josh Nesbit, Courtesy of Photoshare
A health worker uses a PDA at a hospital in India. © 2009 Frederick Noronha, Courtesy of Photoshare
Community health workers practice text messaging with mobile phones during FrontlineSMS training at St. Gabriel's Hospital in Namitete, Malawi © 2008 Josh Nesbit, Courtesy of Photoshare.
Josh Nesbit of FrontlineSMS:Medic assists a community health worker with mobile phone usage during FrontlineSMS training at St. Gabriel's Hospital in Namitete, Malawi. © 2008 Josh Nesbit, Courtesy of Photoshare
Community health workers practice text messaging during FrontlineSMS training at St. Gabriel's Hospital in Namitete, Malawi. © 2008 Josh Nesbit, Courtesy of Photoshare
USAID | DELIVER PROJECT staff in Zambia use cell phones to collect data for malaria commodities. © 2009 Arturo Sanabria/JSI, Courtesy of Photoshare
In Bangladesh, a BRAC community health worker enrolls an expecting couple in the MAMA program so that they will receive informational SMS or Voice Messages during pregnancy and for the first year of life. © 2012 Cassandra Mickish/CCP, Courtesy of Photoshare.
Standing with her community health post in the background, an Ethiopian community health worker sends an SMS text message containing data about the malaria patients she treated during the week. Community health workers are essential to malaria surveillance in the region. © 2011 Cameron Taylor, Courtesy of Photoshare.
A woman in Medinipore, India, stands in her marigold field while speaking to a customer on a mobile phone. © 2012 Courtesy of Photoshare

mHealth is the use of mobile information and communication technologies for improving health. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, including health promotion and illness prevention, health care delivery, training and supervision, electronic payments, and information systems. Many believe that it has the potential to shift the paradigm on when, where, how and by whom health services are provided and accessed.

But mHealth is a young field and much of the evidence on “what works” is still emerging. Even the evidence that exists can sometimes be difficult to find.

mHealthEvidence.org was designed to bring together the world’s literature on mHealth effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and program efficiency, to make it easier for software developers, researchers, program managers, funders and other key decision-makers to quickly get up to speed on the current state-of-the-art. It includes peer-reviewed and grey literature from high-, middle- and low-resource settings.

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