What is Mobile Health

1. Healthcare Here, There,
Everywhere
Neil Versel
April 21, 2010

2. What is mobile healthcare?
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3. What is mobile healthcare?
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9. What is mobile healthcare?
• Forrester Research: 95 percent of all
healthcare enterprises make use of
smartphones
• McKinsey & Co.: $50B-$60B worldwide market
in 2010, $20B in the U.S. alone
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10. What is mobile healthcare?
An enabling technology that’s
part of a personalized, wireless
future
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11. Buzzword?
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12. Events featuring m-health
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13. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at HIMSS10
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14. West Wireless Healthcare Institute
Mission: “to cut health care costs by identifying, creating, validating and
commercializing the use of wireless technologies to transform medicine.”
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15. Pocket ultrasound at the Olympics
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16. White House joins in
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17. Medical Records Institute
becomes mHealth Initiative
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“Application
Clusters”
©2009 Peter Waegemann/mHealth Initiative
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19. But, there’s a new wild card.
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20. But, there’s a new wild card.
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24. Dr. Andrew Barbash
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25. Dr. Andrew Barbash
• “The mobile phone
becomes kind of the
enabler.”
• “Where I am should
not limit what I can do
or how I get it done”
• "Your phone has
become a remote-
control device for your
availability."
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26. Google Talk on Droid Phone
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27. Hello Health
“Hello Health uses common,
everyday technology to build
strong doctor/patient
relationships. By using a
website that works like a social
media site, you can find a
board-certified physician,
schedule in-person or online
appointments and get fast
answers to questions.”
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28. Mobile health in Haiti
Photo by Randy Roberson/Humanitarian Emergency Logistics & Preparedness
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29. Bellagio, Italy
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30. Bellagio, Italy
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31. DataDyne.org award
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32. $5,000 to activate
a Level 1 trauma team
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33. Live video from ambulance
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35. mHealth Initiative’s
Application Clusters
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“Application
Clusters”
©2009 Peter Waegemann/mHealth Initiative
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38. Tracking Alzheimer’s patients
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40. Telehealth at the VA
• Dr. Adam Darkins: “It’s really a routine part of doing
care.”
• Includes home telehealth, clinical videoconferencing
and store-and-forward telemedicine.
• Home telehealth growth:
2003: 3,000 patients
2009: 40,000 patients
2011 (projected): 75,000 patients
• Mostly telephone consultation today, with some
monitoring devices, but VA wants more mobility, with
wireless monitors and readings delivered automatically
over cellular and Internet connections.
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41. Remember this?
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
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42. ‘Nana’ technology
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43. • Parks Associates: U.S. sales of wireless home-
health technology will grow from $304M in
2009 to $4.4B in 2013, partially due to federal
stimulus money for health IT.
• 96% market growth in 2010
• 126% growth in 2011
• 95% growth in 2012
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44. Not just for elderly patients
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45. Two recent reports
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46. From the report
• Pew Internet & American Life Project: Those
with mobile broadband Internet access are far
more likely than those with only wired
connections to seek health information online.
• Medicine/health is the third-fastest-growing
category of iPhone apps, trailing only games
and travel.
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47. Steve Brown
• “First of all, Connected Health is a much bigger
idea than the original idea of telemedicine, which
was all about laying the painful last mile of
technology to finally reach those with the
greatest needs to communicate about health.”
• “Connected Health, in contrast, is not about
devices, sensors and gadgets. It is about the idea
that how people connect with each other has a
profound impact on health. “
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48. Thank you.
Neil Versel
nversel@gmail.com
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49. Resources
• www.FierceMobileHealthcare.com
• www.mobihealthnews.com
• www.mobilehealthwatch.com
• www.medicalsmartphones.com/
• http://3gdoctor.wordpress.com/ UK
• www.mobih.org mHealth Initiative
• www.telecareaware.com/ UK
• http://e-caremanagement.com/
• http://thetelecareblog.blogspot.com/
• http://brown2020.com/ Steve Brown
• www.americantelemed.org American Telemedicine Association
• http://iphonemedicalapps.com/
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