based mHealth Knowledge Sharing System Emergent Research Forum papers

The use of mobile technologies to support medical care is often referred to as mHealth. In this paper we will look at how a mHealth knowledge sharing environment can support local communities in Ethiopia, by placing them in the solution space to fight communicable diseases. The research will use an interventionist action research approach to a community's problem. As such it will identify the key factors in developing a community based mHealth application. Because, such mHealth applications involve a socio-technical phenomenon, a socio-technical lens will be used for the purpose of analyzing the data