The University of Minnesota Medical Center is the main university hospital for the University of Minnesota Medical School, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

There are two campuses: one located on the East Bank of the Mississippi River and the other located on the West Bank.

It is owned and operated by Fairview Health Services, and is staffed by physicians of University of Minnesota Physicians and community physicians.

The East Bank campus was previously known as University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.

The West Bank campus was previously Saint Mary's Hospital and Fairview-Riverside Medical Center.

The University of Minnesota Medical Center is a teaching institution.

mHealth (also written as m-health) is an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices.

Medicine (British English; American English) is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

The word "medicine" is derived from Latin medicus, meaning "a physician".

Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Community health is a major field of study within the medical and clinical sciences which focuses on the maintenance, protection and improvement of the health status of population groups and communities as opposed to the health of individual patients.

It is a distinct field of study that may be taught within a separate school of public health or environmental health.