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
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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.
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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.