Mobile phone text messaging (Short Message Service, SMS) has proved to be a powerful tool for many tasks in\r\nhealth care. It is affordable and instant way for communication between health care personnel and patients, enabling\r\ndifferent kinds of control and monitoring applications, improving adherence in self-management of chronic diseases or\r\nhealthy lifestyle programs etc. However, it is not only textual data that can be transmitted by mobile phone messaging.\r\nMultimedia Message Service (MMS) makes it possible to send images, video sequences and audio attached to the\r\nmessage. This has significant potential in health care applications, and an amount of research has been made recently\r\non this field. In this paper, we review the recent development in the mobile phone messaging in health care. Special\r\nattention has been paid in the discussion of the current state of the art of text messaging as well as the potentiality of\r\nmultimedia data that can be utilized by means of multimedia messaging.
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