A framework for mobile healthcare answers to chronically ill outpatient non-adherence.

Non-adherence (also known as 'non-compliance') is a major barrier undermining healing efforts within out-of-hospital self-management programmes, resulting in waste of human and social resources. This study suggests a theoretical framework of activities through which mobile patient solutions might address non-adherence determinants in a broader context of clinical interventions. The goal of the paper is to explore a dilemma associated with such …