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Objective. The aim of this study is to identify m-Health services in Romania and evaluate their effectiveness in line with international experience. Material and method. The study provides for the analysis of telemedicine services and applications focusing on the specific mobile health of international and national literature and practice through the Internet. We accessed and analyzed m-Health applications and programs, articles or reports, starting from the objectives, procedures, services belonging to, the cost, the impact, the behavior of the beneficiaries. Results. Relevant m-Health WHO reports, studies on applications used in Europe, recent reviews on the systematic analysis of the impact of m-Health applications, examples of applications in Romania have been identified. The main areas where these applications / services are present on the Romanian medical services market have been identified, specifying the objectives, the beneficiaries of services, their impact and their behavior Discussions. The applications of mobile medicine (m-Health) are becoming more frequent, more diversified, using various sensors and addressing chronic diseases such as: diabetes, asthma, chronic lung disease, epilepsy, coronary pathology, follow-up and management of susceptible patients as well as concerning communicable diseases and tracing of vectors of certain communicable diseases and endemic areas. Applications are also used for emergency and disaster management. The cost of accessing and receiving health services is decreasing, with higher accessibility, including in remote areas and with deficient medical services (for Romania as the Danube Delta, mountain areas etc.). Conclusions. Although m-Health services have begun to spread also in Romania, we still can not assess their effectiveness because the impact is still quite limited. Positive results are reported especially in the management of chronic conditions such as diabetes (especially juvenile diabetes) and epilepsy, significant decrease in the time of presentation of the patient with myocardial infarction to a hospital capable of initiating angiographic intervention per primum, better management of the urgency, and pre-hospital assistance. It also increases the addressability of patients in rural and remote areas to quality medical services.