Mobile Health applications

2009 July 13
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Technologies and personalized medicine-This could have been a very unlikely combination,a few years ago.Now,with the growth of technologies,mainly mobile technologies which enable users to be untethered themselves from their desk have changed the face of medicine forever.
Even in developing countries across the globe,mobile health applications are the new mantra.
In a  A special report on health care and technology A doctor in your pocket

published on Apr 16th 2009 by economist-

Developing countries are using mobile phones to leapfrog to personalised medicine

In co-operation with MTN, a big mobile carrier in South Africa, American academics and several other innovative groups, iTeach has launched Project Masiluleke. Using a form of text messaging similar to SMS, this sends out up to a million short messages a day, encouraging the recipients in their local language to contact the national AIDS hot line. The response has been spectacular, especially among young men who have proved hard to reach in the past. When people ring, they are often told about clinics outside their immediate community; in future they will be offered special test kits they can use at home.

Similarly,UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION

MHEALTH ALLIANCE ACTIVITY

In keeping with the rapid evolution of the mHealth industry, the Alliance will maintain a broad vision. Its initial activity will focus on thought leadership, global advocacy and collaboration, and implementation. The Alliance will provide:

• Thought leadership to the mHealth sector through: rigorous market research on the size and dynamics of the global mHealth market; presenting the “opportunity for mHealth” by commissioning white papers; undertaking regional conferences and impact studies, and consulting.

• Global advocacy and collaboration in the areas of policies, regulations, interoperability, best practices and support of relevant mobile and related health standards.

• Partnership for selective implementations in areas such as project design and support, project funding, and driving the public-private collaboration necessary for successful mHealth projects to be nationally and regionally scaled.

Can Mobile technologies really change medicine!

from → Health 2.0, Mobile Health