Hi all, As a follow-up on the mobile health thread, here's an article on BBCNews. It describes mHealth as a way to reach rural populations in developing countries where PCs are rare and mobile phones more abundant. Emphasis is on its potential for prevention.
----------- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7893849.stm Three foundations have announced their intention to join in a "mobile health" effort to use mobile technology to provide better healthcare worldwide. The UN, Vodafone, and the Rockefeller Foundation's mHealth Alliance aims to unite existing projects to improve healthcare using mobile technology. [...] Yet mobile technology, as much as it can multiply the efforts of city- dwelling doctors and bring diagnoses to far-flung villages, cannot make up for some shortfalls. "There's 4 billion mobile phones now in the world, 2.2 billion of those in the developing world," said Ms Thwaites. "Compare that to 305 million PCs and then look at hospital bed numbers: there's 11 million of them in the developing world." As a result, mHealth projects must also be able to provide an ounce of prevention, and the report sheds light on some particularly successful initiatives. [...] ---------- Michiel de Lange __________________ Erasmus University Rotterdam PhD candidate 'Playful Identities' Room H5-13 PO Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam +31 10 4088983 +31 6 53201800 [email protected] ** Have a look at my research project weblog: http://blog.bijt.org On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:43 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected] > wrote: > > Hello all, > > This is a great thread. I am particularly interested in it vi-a-vis > the application of health services in the developing world. I > understand the issues regarding patient protection and when the > quality of resulting information is not worth the effort for > developing the systems. I wonder, however, if the equation is > different for people who do not have any medical coverage at the > point of departure. > > > Rich L. > ________________________________________ > Fra: [email protected] [mobile- > [email protected]] på vegne av Craig [[email protected] > ] > Sendt: 11. februar 2009 12:38 > Til: mobile-society > Emne: [mobile-society] Re: Invention turns cell phone into mobile > medical lab > > Have been working in this space for a while - mobile health IT and > applications - and just posted on my blog the mHealth Revolution track > at the TEPR+ conference last week. The most notable session (and > lively) was a speaker from the medical devices branch of the US > Federal Drug Administration that regulates and approves medical > devices. All of these developments, and more, are raising many > questions about just when does a mobile phone become a medical device > - when it stores and transmits medical information? Is used to > exchange information between a patient and health care provider for > diagnostic and/or treatment purposes? Manage a chronic health > condition? Read diagnostic tests - the new iPhone MRI app for example? > Turning it into a medical lab would certainly raise the same question, > and the Glucophone is labeling itself as a medical device. Questions > for right now but a call for conversations about where and how these > lines are drawn to protect patients and insure quality health care. > How and who decides when an application is not merely a consumer > product but of 'medical quality?' See for more information - > http://tinyurl.com/aoy4xd. > > On Feb 10, 9:06 pm, Fabiana <[email protected]> wrote: >> Great! >> >> =) > > > > --------------------------------Disclaimer-------------------------------- De informatie verzonden in dit e-mail bericht inclusief de bijlage(n) is vertrouwelijk en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde van dit bericht. Lees verder: http://www.eur.nl/email-disclaimer The information in this e-mail message is confidential and may be legally privileged. Read more: http://www.eur.nl/english/email-disclaimer -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
