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.
The New Scientist today reports on a new system demonstrated this week by Dutch researchers. The Human++ BAN platform allows sensors placed within the body to send readings via a short range radio network to the owner’s phone. From here the data can be forwarded to doctors via a WiFi or 3G data connection. Users can also see the readings on their phone screen, giving them instant updates on how the organ in question is doing.
A Pennsylvania-based company has just released a healthcare management application that targets multiple sclerosis patients to the App Store. David Warden, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2008, created an application called i-inject that allows fellow patients to manage details of their healthcare.
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Makes the interesting point that it's no the app that's revolutionary/exciting in mhealth its the phone with GPS + the potential of biometric sensors communicating with an EHR