Text4baby Is Just One Of Many Programs For Mobile Health

Mobile technology will improve worldwide health utilizing simple cell phones

. According to an article by ThirdAge.com, Microsoft founder, Bill Gates told the mHealth Summit last week that with cheap diagnostic tools, patient reminders, and making immunization programs more efficient, cell phones can truly improve global health. Gates said that with cell phone access, a doctor can link into a clinic to give more doctor access to patients. Wider adoption of mobile tech across the developing world can improve health care with improved diagnostic tools and more efficient immunization programs, said Gates at this weeks mHealth Summit.

Text4Baby is Just One of Many Programs for Mobile Health

Text4Baby is a free mobile app to promote healthy mothers and children. Nearly 100,000 new mothers have already signed up for the program. Mothers get a text message per week giving the new mothers help from pregnancy through the babys first year. According to an article by Shawn Douglas, BabyChums.com, the program was created by Paul Meyer, chairman of Voxiva. We deliver messages that are tied to the due date so the information that you receive at week 34 is relevant to whats happening to you at week 34.

Mobile health apps gain momentum with now over 5 billion cell phone users globally. Last week health care and telecom experts gathered in Washington, D.C. for the mHealth Summit to promote mobile technology in the medical field. Specifically, they were pushing the use of cell phones to provide mobile health care. Studies in Kenya show that Kenyans with HIV have lower levels of the disease if they receive a weekly text. A recent U.N. report showed that cell phones in developing countries now have a nearly 50% penetration rate in 2008. This is up from nearly zero 10 years ago. Computers are still scarce in these developing countries but with the rise in cell phone coverage, medical care is now more widely available.

Research grants related to mobile phone are up nearly 500% since 2005. The mHealth Alliance announced last week that Hewlett Packard donated a two-year, $1 million aggregate to help improve health care and health systems around the globe using mobile technology.

The focus is on mobile health! More and more apps are available to promote health, monitor patient care and give patients access to doctors and clinics. Testing and patient diagnostics are becoming more available as well. See my blog, Can you hear my cough now? As we proceed into the 21st century, the technology for mobile health care will grow exponentially. At first I thought this would put an unfavorable distance between the patient and the health care providers, but as more apps are available worldwide, I can see the huge potential benefiting global health. What about you? Are you for or against all the mobile health apps?

by: CellPlaza

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