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. “I think you’ve got to start with the fact that healthcare is an information business. When he puts the stethoscope up against your chest, he is gathering information. When he listens to your cough, he is gathering information. When he takes your temperature he is gathering information. If you look at the healthcare business as a collection of information, the challenge is how to get information to the place where it can best be most productively consumed, for the benefit of the person from whom I have collected it. That’s the challenge that exists in the world today,” he said.