Day 2 Mobile Healcare Industry Summit

London - Yesterday and today have been a very exciting past few days. The speakers gave very good examples of the use of mobile technology in the developing world and the developed world. I have had the chance to meet many people and will continue to provide strategy consulting and business development to this emerging industry. As I have mentioned before, the market for mHealth has two overlapping spheres: consumer and clinical. As well as two different strategies in the developed and developing nations.

The consumer market is driven by wellness and fitness. The sales of these wireless enabled devices is increasing and so is the awareness. The metro paper here in London on Monday had an article about gadgets to buy for christmas. All were wireless enabled fitness/wellness products. I will discuss this market in a future blog.

The clinical market will have medical devices that send data to clinicians and other care providers to provide remote/ telehealth/ telemedicine encounters which reduce the cost of healthcare, improve the care coordination, reduce complications, improve patient compliance, improve patient satisfaction and improve efficiency. I will go into detail on this in a future blog also.

The developed nations strategies should focus more on improving the care of the chronic care conditions, patient centered medical home and user generated health while the developing nations should use the existing infrastructure and penetrence of mobile phones to focus on increasing access, awareness through innovative and creative methods of SMS and data exchange. Again, each of these I will elaborate on in future blogs.

I spoke with Doug Chambers today and he told me about the history of SMS. I will contact him to get the details and will post about the history of SMS

While spending some time with Dr Ruchi Das, I explained to her how we are coming to a convergence of technology, social behavior and healthcare. As the internet has grown as an information source into a social interaction with multiple modes of interaction the old paradigms of healthcare will fall. They have already begun to fall as I mentioned but the future is almost unimaginable. And it is not a distant future. The technological advancements with targeted gene therapy, gene diagnostics, nanotechnology combined with the technological advancements and changes in e-health, m-health and user-generated healthcare will converge into a new paradigm. An extremely patient centric model. We coined the term i-Health+.

I am always eager to hear your comments and input.

CCHIT

Exciting news!!. I was selected as a Physician Juror for the CCHIT.

Pre Conference workshop by Frog at Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit

London - Thistle Marble Arch.

I had the privilege of attending the pre-conference workshop today at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit Thomas Sutton (General Manager) and Fabio Sergio

(Creative Director) led a group of very excited and interested participants into answering the question,

"How do you create a viable mHealth strategy." Since this field is still developing it was a great practice

to try and define this field Mobile, Machine, Medicine. ubiquitous are just some terms that were used

to start to identify the field. We concluded that mHealth is not an entity unto itself, but part of e-health and healthcare. I see it as two specific domaians within healthcare and ehealth that overlap- consumer (patient) and clinical. Currently the growth of the market is focused on the consumer side but the clinical applications need to be developed. Wheather it is with apps, clinical studies, M2M sensors, or BAN we are at an excited threshold in the evolution of technology and medicine as the two converge and transform behaviors and social concepts. One example of this paradigm shift is the doctor-patient relationship.

Patients would simply visit their doctor and were told want to do for their health. I call it the parent-child

model. With the advent of the internet and access to information the patients were armed with questions

. nothing wrong with questions. You should be aware and concerned about your body. This is where we

are now the parent-teenager stage. As technology becomes smaller and data streams increase there

is a necessity to shift this interaction. The patient has grown up and we as doctors should encourage

the independnce of our grown up children They are adults now and should be treated with that respect

and should be empowered to take control of their health. This can ease the burden of care for doctors and

improve the overall wellness and health of our society. I am very glad to be a part of this change.

Mobile Healthcare Blog: Creating Some Dialogue Around Mobile Healthcare

Mobile Healthcare Blog: Creating Some Dialogue Around Mobile Healthcare

DROID Phones from Verizon

Today was the release for the Android based phone by Motorola - Droid. If you were in Times Square, NY you were able to get one at midnight. There were not many long lines for this new phone, but an aggresive media campaign did have many interested in the release. The phone runs Android 2.0, 16GB pre-installed memory, very rich 3.7in WVGA screen with 854x480 screen and 3GEVD on the Verizon Wireless Network. The Price is$199 with a two year contract
Also available from Verizon is the HTC Eris. The phone runs Android 1.5, 8GBinstalled exandable to 16GB, 3.2in 320x480 screen. This comes in a little lower at $99 with two year contract. I will give you more of a review when I get a chance to play with one. Please share your experiences with this new line from Verizon.

Qualcomm and Verizon Wireless name joint venture

nPhase is the name of the new joint venture with verizon wireless and Qualcomm. Read here to know more about it. NPhase The next decade will see an amazing transformation in healthcare with the convergence of internet technology and the real time monitoring of patients. Going to see a doctor when your sick will become a thing of the past. Gotta see some patients now but I hope to continue this thought later. Please feel free to leave comments.

$1.2billion form HHS for EHR

$1.2billion available from HHS to help doctors and hospitals use electronic health records http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/

Allscripts EHR announcement

I am at ACE 2009 and am very excited to share my news about a new feature to be announced tomorrow for EHR users.