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mHealth is an emerging and rapidly developing field with huge exploitation expectancies both in improving life quality of patients and in market opportunities. Patents and innovations in mHealth represents a priority for companies to enter and exploit their know-how and market requests. This paper focuses on the analysis of the Intellectual Property Rights in the field of mHealth systems to draw a reference knowledge framework of the mHealth scenario. An up-to-date detailed categorization, the geographical distribution and the identification of top players in mHealth is presented.
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Barbieri, M., Andreoni, G. (2017). A Reference Framework of mHealth Patents for Innovative Services. In: Perego, P., Andreoni, G., Rizzo, G. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 192. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58877-3_27
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