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. Crucial to this is the need to generate traction among healthcare professionals, with Ganapathy arguing that healthcare providers should be “first among equals” in the mobile healthcare ecosystem. However, he also argued that the needs of patients must be central to the discussion.