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Digital healthcare focused on prevention, prediction, participation and personal health. Digital P4 will include mHealth and services on the Web.

“The barriers facing mHealth and it’s impact on health in developing countries can be generalized as being infrastructural, regulatory and project sustainability.

Steven Dodsworth, Head of Life Sciences, Highlands & Islands Enterprise:

Thomas Brennan, Research Assistant, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Oxford University

Ari Isa Muhammad, Director, Economic Planning and Coordinator, Millennium Development Goals, Office of the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria:

Dr. Henry Potts, Senior Lecturer, UCL, UK: “The reality is that extra data is not what doctors want.

mHealth service developers need to show an economic as well as a medical advantages to their offerings, Potts advised.

Chuck Parker, Executive Director, Continua Alliance: “Right now the market is focused on devices and services for chronic disease management.

But longer term, we need to shift that focus onto supporting people who are healthy and well, too.