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Mobile health (mHealth) provides cost-efficient means to support self-management and foster empowerment.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n There is a scarcity of research investigating how mHealth affects patient empowerment during patient-physician consultations. The objective of this study is to address this knowledge gap by investigating how mHealth affects consultations and patient empowerment.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n We relied on data from an ethnographic field study of 6 children and adolescents diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. We analyzed 6 patient-physician consultations and drew on Michel Foucault\u2019s concepts of power and power technology.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Our results suggest that the use of mHealth constitutes practices that structure the consultations around deviations and noncompliant patient behavior. Our analysis shows how mHealth is used to discipline patients and correct their behavior. We argue that the use of mHealth during consultations may unintentionally lead to relevant aspects of patients\u2019 lives related to the disease being ignored; thus, inadvertently, patients\u2019 voices may be silenced.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Our results show that concrete uses of mHealth may conflict with extant literature on empowerment, which emphasizes the importance of strengthening the patients\u2019 voices and enabling patients to take more control of their health and treatment. We contribute to the state-of-the-art knowledge by showing that the use of mHealth may have unintended consequences that do not lead to empowerment. 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