mong smartphone Operating Sysytem (OS) ...... Based on unit
sales to consumers last quarter, the Android operating system moved into
second position at 28 percent behind RIM's OS with 36 percent and ahead of Apple's OS with 21 percent...... This may have implications to consider for developers of medical applications in the mHealth market ...Read on at: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=733877ENJOY!CC…
hering momentum propelling mHealth. I would be interested sharing your thoughts on mHealth and emerging markets with the MedTech-IQ community. Is there a way we can do this? Thank you in advance.
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s Administration, this mobile app promises to be a potentially groundbreaking advance for visually impaired users. This is an automated visual scanning system that increases the functional independence of visually impaired users by providing a mobile system in which the person can easily recognize objects such as packaged goods, money, CDs, text, barcodes, and landmarks in their environment.
Another component of this LookTel system extends the capability further by offering a “virtual pair of eyes” via the use of a cell phone camera and data link to a remote assistant who can look at live images through that cell phone camera and then describe the person’s surroundings ...
... Ipplex, the holding company that serves as an umbrella company for iVisit, the video and mobile video company that works closely with the Wound Technology Network, has recently launched this product, which is called LookTel ...
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University of Texas, with support from MedTech-IQ member, Eric Noji, MD, convened a remarkable meeting to explore strategies for using "Telemedicine and mHealth" to help rebuild the healthcare delivery infrastructure in Haiti ...The meeting attended by the Haitian Minister of Health, Alex Larsen, M.D., was entitled "Telemedicine & mHealth in Haiti: Applying Global Lessons to the Development of Solutions", and included representatives from:the U.S. Federal Government - State Department (USAID), Department of Health and Human Services (CDC, NIH, NLM), Department of Defense (Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs, TATRC); Academia - University of Texas, Harvard University, University of Washington, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, University of Puerto Rico;Industry - Digicel Haiti, Datadyne, Deloitte, STRATITIA, Casscells & Associates, Noji Global Health & Security, The Global Telemedicine Group; and Civil Society - American Red Cross, Project Hope, mHealth Alliance (representing the UN Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation), Konbit Sante Haiti, the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad... Dr James opened the discussion on behalf of the host, the AMA, and pledged continuing support from the AMA's Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response, and journal, Disaster Medicine and Public Health
Preparedness ...... Dr Casscells and Minister Larsen described the challenge in Haiti, and along with other symposium discussants described a number of areas in which Telemedicine (usually thought of as fixed location services faciliitated by telecommunications) and mHealth (usually considered mobile services using cell phones) can make a material difference... They were:
Dissemination of Public Medical Information
Capture of Distributed Medical Information at the Point of Care (POC)
As a Platform for Electronic Health Records (EHR)s
Infectious Disease Biosurveillance
Point of Care (POC) Decision Support Systems (DSS)
Advanced Distributed Learning - Distance Learning
Remote Diagnostics:Ultrasound, Miniature Microscopes & Electronic Stesthescopes
Administration (Scheduling, Registration, Reporting, Order Management, Ect.)
Supply Chain Management
Cell Based Payment Systems
... Minister Larsen and his staff emphasized the need for developing robust systems for enhancing human capital thru ongoing training. The "Father" of modern telemedicine, Jay Sanders, M.D., emphasized the importance of not chasing technology for technology sake, but to focus on the clinical problem, and then choosing the right technology to solve the problem ..... All in all, a good day, addressing a tough challenge. Let's hope this is only one of many continuing efforts to support the Haitian recovery ...... MedTech-IQ commends the conveners of this important meeting and pledges our support going forward ...CC…
... The potential use of cell phones as innovative, inexpensive and efficient tools for public health was a primary theme in a Mobile Health Summit convened by the MHS last December that included the Combatant Command surgeons and experts from multiple federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations and the World Health Organization (WHO)...
... “Over half the world (or about 4 billion people) own a cell phone and only 400 million own a computer, so it’s only a matter of time before everyone uses a cell phone for all their computing needs,” said Col. (Dr.) Ron Poropatich, deputy director of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Md....
... Poropatich said mHealth can be used for such applications as clinical consultation, education, research, biosurveillance and disease management. DoD projects include an ongoing research protocol being conducted by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Diabetes Institute, which is utilizing Internet-enabled cell phones to pull up 15- to 30-second video clips that provide educational content on exercise, blood glucose monitoring and diet...
... Another cell phone project is being carried out at several community-based Warrior Transition Units through a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform that is aimed primarily at Reserve and National Guard members with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or suspected TBI...
... International mHealth efforts include a project in Peru being carried out by DoD’s Global Emerging Infections System (DoD-GEIS) in conjunction with the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center in Lima and the Peruvian military. It utilizes cell phones for biosurveillance detection and sending out alerts about suspected emerging infections...
... Poropatich said that in the future the use of mobile phones could potentially be expanded to areas such as maternal and child health care; clinical consultations where pictures of a rash, for example, could be exchanged between providers to reach a diagnosis; biosurveillance research; and medical logistics in which information from the field is uploaded about medication stocks so supply chain personnel know when they need to be resupplied...
Read on, and hear a podcast interview of Colonel Poropatich, M.D. on international and U.S. mHealth apps at: http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=1031
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Hebrew University and the University of California, Berkeley, have designed a system to transfer medical images via cell phone.
Hebrew University, http://www.huji.ac.il/huji/eng/