Now, as the number of mobile subscriptions worldwide keep increasing, also
comes an increase in the number of mobile health initiatives around the world.
As you can see, just looking at the number of articles that have come out,
this was from 2010, you're also seeing an exponential increase in
articles describing mobile health initiatives okay?
Now the hypothesis as related to mobile health is that if you have better data,
better communication, better information and
better access that you'd have improved health outcomes.
Now what type of mobile health applications can be used in
developing country settings?
We are going to spend a good amount of time just walking through the range of
mobile health applications that we are seeing being implemented in developing
countries just to help provide a sense of the breadth of things you could do with
mobile health technology.
And what I'm going to show you is some of the work we did as part of the mHealth
alliance evidence working group which was constituted between 2012 and 2013.
Okay now, we are going to break
mobile health applications into three domains in terms of the impact on health.
So we'll talk about mobile health applications as related to health systems,
we'll tak about mobile health applications as related to provide us and
also as related to clans.
So let's start with a subset of mobile health applications as related to
health systems and we'll just list some of them there.
So you can have mobile health applications that are used for real time data access or
what is called personal health records or personalized health records.