South Africa Mobile Health Information
A project that works to deliver relevant and current health education resources to nurses in Cape Elizabeth, South Africa using commercial mobile broadband enabled devices. Learn more about Wireless Reach
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By Lyndsay Moss
Health Correspondent
WANT to lose weight? There’s an app for that. In all the things your mobile phone can help you with, healthy eating is now among them.
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The innovative use of modern technology to promote health and prevent illness is the subject of a national conference being held in Inverness next month.
Read more on Future of rural healthcare comes under the microscope at Highland conference…
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Lensless mobilephone microscope receives 3 major awards
Mobile phones are accumulating a Swiss Army Knife-esqe assortment of capabilities; substituting as cameras, providing internet access, and soon operating as medical labs if Aydogan Ozcan’s plans come to fruition. This month’s cover article of the journal Lab on a Chip features the latest creation by the Ozcan group, a functioning prototype of a mobile phone microscope. The lensless imaging platform behind the mobile phone microscope is nearing readiness for real world trials, after receiving prestigious awards in the past month from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Geographic, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Read more on Mobile phone microscope poised to begin trials in Africa…
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Open for Registrations 22nd and 23rd September 2010
Register now for the most exciting eHealth conference in Scotland this year! Held at the prestigious Glasgow Science Centre you not only have a great programme, wide range of exhibitors, great views over the Clyde and City but complementary entrance to the fun science exhibits as well!
Marty Cooper, the “Father of the Mobile Phone”, did a fantastic job on his 60 Minute Interview tonight (Sunday, May 23, 2010).
During that interview, Marty pointed out that one of the obvious future direction of Mobile Phone technology was in Healthcare.
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A major new report published today by Healthcare at Home Ltd explores which technologies and models used in the US for chronic disease management could successfully be adopted here in the UK.
Read more on UK better placed than the US to manage chronic disease: lessons from the US…
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Agency claims area is well placed to lead in delivering healthcare from a distance
HIE forum aims to put north at tele-healthcare forefront
By Iain Ramage
Published: 12/04/2010
Development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise is to host a summit on the future of “telehealthcare” in a bid to put the region at the forefront of the potentially lucrative emerging sector.
Read more on Highlands and Islands Enterprise hold conference on the potential of telehealthcare…
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mHealth = mobile Health = mobile healthcare
A slide set by Jay Bernhardt – Director, National Center for Health Marketing at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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