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Should we be teaching Healthcare Professionals to read QR Codes OR search “How to” on YouTube? – mHealth Insight
In the mHealth for Healthcare Professionals course that we developed we decided that it's best to teach Healthcare professionals how to find content and tag videos they upload (so that they can be found and generate feedback from audiences) rather than use QR Codes so it's interesting that NHS Hospitals have taken the opposite approach.…
Join us at the Clinical Innovation Congress, 9-10 March 2016 – mHealth Insight
Following some great feedback and new business as a result of the talks we've given at the last 2 annual meetings (read my review of the 2014 event here, check out the slides from my 'Smartphones: a clinical trial platform' talk last year here and watch this 40 min video if you need a deep dive…
Join us at the Wearable Technology Show, 15-16 March 2016 – mHealth Insight
Held at London Excel the Wearable Technology Show (co-located with the Augmented Reality & IoT Connect Show's) is now in it's 3rd year and has grown to be the world's largest show for wearables, smart technology and IoT. With more than 3,500 delegates expected the exhibition floor will feature more than 100 exhibitors and there will be 75…
mHealth guide to the 2016 Mobile World Congress – mHealth Insight
As with last year the mHealth highlights of Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona next week are once again all over the place so this comprehensive mHealth Guide will help ensure you don't miss anything if you're also heading out to the world's biggest Mobile Industry meeting. For a background on mHealth developments at Mobile…
The BMA has issued an Urgent Prescription for General Practice – how could mHealth help? – mHealth Insight
The BMA has made a call for urgent treatment to ensure NHS GP survival in the face of "workload and patient demand at unprecedented levels". Read the BMA's Responsive, safe and sustainable - a vision for the future of general practice (PDF) and follow them on Twitter to show your support. I thought the social media campaign…
mHealth Insights from the IoT Tech Expo – mHealth Insight
IoT Tech Expo Europe was held on the 10-11th February 2016 at Olympia Exhibition Halls in London and was the launch by Six Degrees of a new series of global events that are designed to bring together key industries for top level content and discussion about the Internet of Things. Headline sponsors included Vodafone, Samsung, Ubuntu and Intel. Here's a few notes…
mHealth for Medical Device Manufacturers, Washington DC, 3-4 February 2016 – mHealth Insight
MedTechIntelligence have renamed their Washington DC Medical Device Summit as "mHealth for Medical Device Manufacturers" and will be bringing together a very interesting selection of speakers/topics that highlight how the spotlight is turning on the mHealth opportunity now that Apple (with it's $200B cash stockpile) is on a very public medical device industry hiring spree. Click here…
The FBI can’t get data off a password protected iPhone – mHealth Insight
I remember thinking that BlackBerry had hit a marketing home run back in 2010 when they were banned in the UAE because they refused to locate a server in the region so governments could access the private information of citizens but Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken it to another level with this message to customers…
Electronic Health Records: NHS Patients are managing them for themselves – mHealth Insight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8027TwgNUY "Hi I’m Ingrid and I’m in my seventies, and I’m unfortunate enough to have a lot of long-term conditions due to the fact that I have ankylosing spondylitis. The patient access works for me in lots of ways, but one of the ways it is extremely useful for and keeps me safe is that I can share…
Technology will never replace Doctors but they must embrace it – mHealth Insight
In this Telegraph article I think Professor Maureen Baker, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, adds to the confusion about the adoption of consumer technology by GPs so I thought it worth sharing my thoughts. mHealth Insights Healthcare Professionals need a lot more media training Surely it's obvious that you're losing the battle…
Join us for “NLDigital NextGen: 5G & Health” on 12 November 2020 | mHealth Insight
"It’s time for the NLdigital NextGen Innovation Technology Event on Thursday, November 12th (online, MS Teams). After all the conspiracy theories about 5G we will, together with leading experts, look at the benefits and possibilities of 5G for healthcare. Four fantastic speakers from around the world will address the topic of 5G & Health and share their…
Join us at London Futurists: What should we learn from the Covid-19 crisis? | mHealth Insight
Starting at 14.00 UK time (GMT) on Saturday 14th March this online Zoom discussion is scheduled to run for around 90 minutes and will include a number of initial short talks followed by a group discussion (in which all online attendees can participate) of the lessons that futurists can learn as individuals, nations and as a global…
The European Commission funds the launch of the EU mHealth Hub | mHealth Insight
The European mHealth Hub is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the action “Establishing EU mHealth Hub including evidence for the integration of mHealth in the healthcare systems” (Grant Agreement No 737427) and is a project promoted by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union and the World…
mHealth in Times of Crisis: the Coronavirus | mHealth Insight
Concerns over the Coronavirus have created exceptional circumstances in which the annual meeting of the $Trillion Mobile Industry (Mobile World Congress in Barcelona) has been cancelled. On Monday the 24th February 2020 we will be gathering together world leaders in the use of mHealth to produce a seminar that will inform and educate attendees…
Review of #COVID19 Medical History Taking Questionnaires | mHealth Insight
Obviously there is 50+ years of history of computers being used to help take Patient histories but most medics are only learning about Patient History Taking questionnaires as a result of the COVID19 PanicDemic so I thought it might be interesting to review what's being produced and upload videos here (as they'll probably all disappear…
Ways mHealth can help GPs manage Patient needs in a lockdown | mHealth Insight
This fascinating Twitter thread by NHS GP Dr Renee Hoenderkamp reminded me how how poorly the RCGP has prepared GPs to manage care in 2020 and got me thinking of specific practical ways that mHealth can meet care needs in these exceptional times (if you have any suggestions please add them below in the comments):…
RCGP publish Roger Neighbour’s ten tips for successful Video Consultations | mHealth Insight
"Many GPs and most Patients will have little previous experience of consulting remotely by video link or smartphone. Using an unfamiliar format at a time of high workload and high anxiety increases the risk of making errors of judgement, but this risk can be reduced by paying attention to some basic principles" RCGP COVID19 Resources…
mHealth at Mobile World Congress 2021 | mHealth Insight
After last years event was the first major international conference to be cancelled due to the global COVID lockdown (which led to use producing the mHealth in Times of Crisis online event last February in which I predicted PCR tests would be used my governments to lock the world down) I have been looking forward…
Global Health Matters (the bimonthly newsletter of the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center) features a Focus on Mobile Health | mHealth Insight
Download newsletter (.PDF) It's very sad that in 2020 we're now seeing the NIH adding it's weight to this incredibly dangerous promotion of using mobiles as laboratory equipment...
After arsonists attack 5G Mobile masts Social Media firms have been ordered to censor discussions of negative health effects of 5G networks | mHealth Insight
The BBC's Leo Kelion reports on how social media firms have been asked by the British Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden to be more aggressive in censoring 'crackpot' 5G conspiracy theories linking 5G mobile networks to the the coronavirus pandemic following a number of 5G masts apparently being set on fire. mHealth Insights The telcos really are dead set on…