mHealth Summit: Mobile Technologies as a Platform for Health Research and Healthcare Delivery

Filed in archive Consumer Alert , Miscellany , News on July 30, 2009

Mobile technologies have the potential to transform global health care on many fronts, from research and diagnostics to training and preventative interventions. Targeting experts from such diverse fields as medical research, software design, clinical health care, hardware manufacture and network transmission, the summit hopes to spur development and deployment of innovative, practical, affordable and effective solutions to health challenges in underserved and resource-poor populations.

In addition to reviewing current tools and research from a wide spectrum of stakeholders, the summit will foster inter-disciplinary collaboration that could identify entirely new opportunities that team existing mobile-industry companies with emerging public health facilitators.





What: mHealth Summit
When: October 29-30, 2009
Where: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (Washington DC, USA)

Register online now and be a part of a public-private partnership of the Foundation for NIH: The mHealth Summit - an unprecedented event that will bring together researchers, policy-makers, collaborators and visionaries from around the world to exchange ideas, novel approaches, research and findings surrounding mHealth issues both in the United States and in developing countries.