Integrating mHealth in Oncology: Experience in the Province of Trento.

Background: The potential benefits of the introduction of electronic and mobile health (mHealth) information technologies, to support the safe delivery of intravenous chemotherapy or oral anticancer therapies, could be exponential in the context of a highly integrated computerized system.

Objective: Here we describe a safe therapy mobile (STM) system for the safe delivery of intravenous chemotherapy, and a home monitoring system for monitoring and managing toxicity and improving adherence in patients receiving oral anticancer therapies at home.

Methods: The STM system is fully integrated with the electronic oncological patient record.

[Complexity of care: meanings and interpretation].

Introduction: Although the concept of complexity of care is widely used and discussed, its meaning is blurred and its characteristics are not well defined.

Aims: To identify the words used to define the concept of complexity in the literature and its meaning.

Method: A literature search was performed on the following databases: Pubmed, Medline, Ebsco, Cinahl and Cochrane.