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How will mobile technology help in healthcare? Look to developing nations | SmartPlanet - 3 views

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  • harness mobile communications as a means of reforming the healthcare system’s dominant focus on reactive care and treatment, encouraging a shift to preventive strategies
  • Carrie Pyne on 06 Jun 12
     
    Mobile technology, in the form of mobile phones, can help address healthcare issues, not only in developing countries but countries like the US too
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  • Meaghan Corbett on 06 Jun 12
     
    Interesting! it's great to see that this mode of information-sharing has such potential. Text messages are quick, easy, and cheap; they might be ideal for medication or appointment reminders.
  • jcinthelibrary on 06 Jun 12
     
    Carrie, this article discusses using the smart phone apps and their ability to access the Internet to help those who don't have access to a face-to-face doctor. One of my articles this week mentioned an even more advanced way of long-distance healthcare: pacemakers hooked up to the Internet allows for a doctor to remotely restart a patient's heart if it stops working. These are things that only a decade ago might have seemed completely impossible yet here they are being used in a relatively wide-spread way.
  • Ronald Jay Gervacio on 06 Jun 12
     
    I can't wait for this service to be widely available and EFFECTIVE for everyone! I wouldn't have to sacrifice adjusting my work hours or taking a day off to get a doctor's appointment! I also wouldn't have to wait for hours in the clinic's lobby for getting a 5-10 mins consultation.
Carrie Pyne

Mobile Technology and Health Care, From NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins | NIH Medli... - 0 views

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  • Mobile health, or mHealth for short, uses mobile technologies for health research and healthcare delivery
  • a mobile optimized Web site, accessible from any platform, including basic flip phones, iPhones, and Androids. That's just one of the concrete ways we are trying to bring medical information to the public.
  • a microscope not much bigger than a quarter that doesn't require a lens and can be connected to a cell phone to transmit high quality images of cells—information that would normally be very hard to acquire. It comes from UCLA and is being tested for its application to assess infectious disease—HIV in this case. It transmits images to a remote computer that can automatically interpret them. It's highly valuable in following the course of infected individuals who are far from the nearest medical center.
  • Carrie Pyne on 06 Jun 12
     
    Mobile technology is already bringing healthcare information to the masses via the MedlinePlus mobile site easily accessed on one's cell phone. More advances on the horizon mean more healthcare access and quicker availability of information.
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