The future of mHealth can only be appreciated through a childs eyes. The first experience I can recall of Healthcare involved a world of payphones and pagers that we can remind ourselves of by watching this 1980′s BT pager ad: Every so often a child contacts me (via the 3G Doctor website) about a project they are working on at school and more often than not I find in their email that there is more insight into future opportunities than I ever gleam from the various presentations I hear from eHealth/Health2.0 futurists who seem fixated on the idea that mobiles are only for people in Africa who don’t have a “proper computer”.
To get your ideas going start by reflecting on how confusing our paper based reactionary healthcare system is going to be to future Doctors by watching this child working out that magazines are just iPads that don’t work: Gizmodo: Watch a baby treat a magazine like an iPad Like this: New Whitepaper Outlines mHealth’s Potential for Serving Hispanic Populations.
HolaDoctor and 3Cinteractive have released a new whitepaper discussing the potential mobile communication has for affecting health within Hispanic populations.
As leading providers of Hispanic health programs, products, and services and mobile software and services respectively, HolaDoctor and 3Cinteractive’s whitepaper, “Improving the Health of Hispanics Using Mobile Technology,” identifies why mHealth is distinctly useful in many Hispanic populations. The whitepaper outlines the positive and negative aspects of today’s mobile technology and the increase in ROI associated with improving medication adherence in Hispanic populations.
With numbers totaling over 50.5 million, the Hispanic population represents the nation’s largest minority. However, the whitepaper points to data that shows that Hispanic populations are often associated with higher rates of chronic disease and lower rates of medication adherence. Report-cover-01oct-1 - Powered by Google Docs.