- How is telehealth related to mHealth?
With the emergence of mHealth, telehealth has become a sub-category inside the definition of mHealth. Based on the fact that telehealth has been around for an extended period of time, it is going to take a longer period of time for people to not separate the two due to familiarity with the term “telehealth.” But just like most of the population referred to copies as a “Xerox” for decades, over time the term “copies” have come back to popularity. I believe that the same scenario will play out here if a better term for telehealth is not established.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu said current health systems were under "huge pressure", they were not sustainable. They needed radical and urgent change if they were to address inequalities and meet the demands of patients into the future.
People had suffered and died living in isolated places. "We now have the power to change this situation", he said in a video address to the national UK health IT conference HC2013.
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Half of the six billion mobile phones in the world right now are in emerging markets and smartphone demand is growing globally as features improve, the wireless tech company CEO said.
“We’re still continuing to grow strongly because the smartphone market is growing around the world,” Jacobs said.
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E-health is a term that entered the health lexicon at the turn of this century. Since then, it has become a buzzword on the health scene to cover not just what analysts were calling "internet medicine", but also just about everything else connected with computers and medicine.
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Latest UN report discloses the two agencies of the United Nations (UN) recently launched a new project called ‘m-Health.’ It is an innovative approach designed to help deal with the proliferating number of global cases associated with non-communicable diseases. Such methodology uses mobile technology including text messaging and applications to tackle with common NCDs such as cancer, chronic respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
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