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