Call to improve mHealth data protection
Greater efforts must be made to protect patient data collected by mobile devices, according to Europe’s data guardian.
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Telecoms firms looking to mHealth
Almost half of all global telecoms firms are actively working to break into the mHealth market, according to a London analyst.
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500m mHealth users predicted by 2015
Smartphone applications will enable the mHealth industry to reach 500m Smartphone users by 2015, a new report by German firm research2guidance claims.
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Europe ‘has no mobile health policy’
Jaakko Aarnio, a project officer in the European Commission’s Information Society and Media directorate, offered an eye-opening revelation about the EC’s mobile healthcare policy recently. “We don’t have a policy now,” Aarnio told an international networking conference staged in Washington by the US-based mHealth Initiative. One reason he gave in his presentation is that mobile […]
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UN, Vodafone and Rockefeller launch mHealth Alliance
The Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation – three of the leading foundations involved in global health, technology and humanitarian assistance – have banded together to create the Mobile Health Alliance. The new mHealth Alliance will work to maximise the impact of mobile health, especially in the developing world. Terry Kramer, […]
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Vodafone invests in mobile health firm
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets. Vodafone Ventures Ltd, the corporate venture capital arm of Vodafone Group, has made an undisclosed investment in t+ Medical, which specialises in the use of mobile phone-based to transfer patient biometric data as […]
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UN + Vodafone focus on mHealth
The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Group Foundation’s Technology Partnership is hosting a conference session looking at how to unlock access to health data and improve healthcare in the developing world using mobile phones. The session is being held as part of the month-long Rockefeller Foundation e-health conference series being held in Bellagio, Italy. “Making […]
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