This issue begins with an article by Nilmini Wickramasinghe from RMIT University in Melbourne, Arthur Tatnall from Victoria University in Melbourne, and Steve Goldberg from INET Intl. Inc., Canada and is titled: "Understanding the Advantages of Mobile Solutions for Chronic Disease Management: The Role of ANT as a Rich Theoretical Lens". The article notes that in an environment of escalating healthcare costs, chronic disease management is particularly challenging, since, by definition such diseases have no foreseeable cure and if poorly managed typically lead to further, complicated secondary health issues, which ultimately only serve to exacerbate cost.
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