mHealth Politics & Economics Country report 4: Australia

Australia was among the first countries to grasp the potential of telemedicine – and before the age of the internet. Government archives record the case of a postmaster in Halls Creek Western Australia who, in 1917, followed instructions telegraphed in Morse code by a surgeon in Perth to perform an operation on a stockman who had sustained serious internal injuries after falling from his horse.

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mHealth Politics & Economics Country report 3: Canada

As the country that invented the BlackBerry it comes as no surprise that Canada is leading the world in testing the clinical benefits of mHealth applications.

The University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (UBC CDC) is running a research project from 2012 to 2014 examining the influence of mobile phones and SMS text messaging on patients with latent tuberculosis infections.

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mHealth Politics & Economics Country report 2: India

A network of community-nurse-led "courtyard shelters" has been established across India to try to tackle child malnutrition. But in challenging circumstances of large populations and remote rural areas, accurate clinical record-keeping is a major problem.

The use of smartphones to gather data can help lift the bureaucratic burden, and costs compare favourably. Training can be a further challenges, but solutions such as voice recognition and text message reminders for health appointments can help shift the barriers.

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mHealth Politics & Economics Country report 1: Spain

One of the main attractions of mHealth applications for both patients and healthcare providers is they can offer an alternative to a long stay in hospital followed by a complex discharge process.

This has a positive impact for patients, their carers and medical teams, and a new study in the Spanish region of Catalonia is aiming to assess these benefits on a significant scale.

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mHealth: why the professional resistance?

Technology is transforming the way healthcare is being delivered worldwide. So why are some healthcare professionals so reluctant to tap into its potential?

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The ROI behind mHealth

Mobile health (mHealth) solutions that take healthcare services to people’s homes can drive up patient satisfaction, quality of care, productivity and efficiency. Why isn’t everyone using them?

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The Washington DC Health Debate – Evaluating Human Behaviour as a barrier to mHealth

We advanced our Health Debate series through participation at the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington DC with a main stage panel presentation and a Health Debate session. Both sessions advanced the discussion around a recent publication, the first of our new series of Insights Guides. The document looks at one of the key barriers to the adoption of mHealth services: human behaviour.

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Health Innovation Expo 2011

As part of its series of debates on the implementation of communications technology in healthcare, Vodafone mHealth Solutions was the official partner of the Healthcare Innovation Expo on 9 and 10 March, and hosted a number of topical debate seminars.

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