Professor Krishnan Ganapathy, president of India's Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation, warned that “mobile health can never, ever, be set to take off unless it is integrated into the core of the healthcare delivery system in our country,” during his keynote at this year’s GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit. Read more...
Chris Ross, Managing Executive for Commercial Development at Vodacom South Africa, highlighted the role of the mobile operator as a key enabling partner in the mHealth ecosystem during this year’s GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit, noting that: “We are an enabler. We don’t purport to be the medical profession, but we underpin the activities that the medical profession takes part in.” Read more...
Telefonica believes that partnerships with various players in the value chain are necessary if mHealth is to grow beyond test pilots into a mainstream global opportunity. Read more...
Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the Board of the mHealth Alliance, drew the 2011 GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit to a close by underlining the core commodity at the heart of the healthcare business – information. Read more...
Obed Bapela, Deputy Minister of Communications for South Africa, opened this year’s GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit with a message that there is enormous potential for mobile health services but barriers to mainstream success must be overcome. Read more...
The mobile health industry must take into account the needs of stakeholders beyond the technology sector, Pramod Gaur, VP of TeleHealth for UnitedHealth Group, said during his keynote at the recent GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit. Read more...
Dr. Kristin Tolle, Director of Natural User Interactions at Microsoft, said during her keynote at the recent GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit that the mobile health industry can “come up with tools that are more natural for people to use” in order to increase service penetration." Read more...
MTN used its keynote session at the recent GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit to state that partnerships with various players in the value chain are necessary if mHealth is to grow beyond test pilots into a mainstream global opportunity. Read more...
Misha Kay, Manager at the Global Observatory for eHealth at the World Health Organisation, called for a “more strategic approach to planning, development and evaluation to increase the impact of mHealth, and also prove that mHealth does work,” in his keynote address at the inaugural GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit. According to Kay, globally just 12 percent of respondents to a wide-ranging survey said that they are doing any formal evaluation of their m-health work, with Europe and the Americas le Read more...
The inaugural GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit was held in Cape Town, South Africa, earlier this month. Mobile World Live was on location to capture a snapshot of event highlights. Read more...
Lyse Brillouet, Head of Strategy and Marketing for Orange Healthcare, used her keynote presentation at last month’s GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit to highlight the four “next steps” the mobile health industry needs to take in order to increase the penetration of services globally. However, she also noted that due to the diverse ecosystem present in the mobile health sector, “the fact is that today the competitive environment is so complex, that it is quite hard for a worldwide player to find robu Read more...