
500 mHealth Multidisciplinary Verticals
27.8 Case Studies
27.8.1 The Working Mother
In 2006, Maha received a gift on her graduation from the King Saud University in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia. It was a wonderful smartphone. She was able to access the Internet, check
her e-mails, and download many useful applications. Maha graduated as an application
programmer and was interested in exploring why the hospitals in Saudi Arabia were not
taking the full advantage of the new mobile technology and applying such technology in
the health-care eld.
Shortly afterwards, in 2007, Maha got married and moved with her husband Khalid to
the city of Khobar, where Kha ...