Quick snapshot of part of the display at the MedApps booth at ATA — notice the Bluetooth-enabled scale on the far left — MedApps said its monitoring hub (the pager-like device that in the dock as well as featured in the kit on the right) is interoperable with a number of peripherals found at your local pharmacy. When asked why users would need to pager when most people have mobile phones, the booth rep said not everyone has a mobile phone. (Close to 90 percent of people in the U.S. do, but we let it go after dropping the stat.)
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May 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
[...] as moderator Dena Puskin from the HHS Office for the Advancement of Telemedicine chuckled.” Article Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews, 1 May [...]
May 4th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I must be missing something. “Who will be the early adopters…”? We already have early adopters of telemedicine. They aren’t necessarily the geeks though they are perhaps driven by those technically minded folks who see the need to implement it. The group I work with are the aged and the chronically ill. They are often rural and poor and lack other access to medicine.
I did not read the whole set of slides, but the opener just struck me as being ridiculous. I am sorry to read it was from someone at the NIH.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Julie,
I agree. I thought both the question and response were odd given the event was focused on Telemedicine and had been around for some 14 years…