Five must-read mobile health reports

By: Brian Dolan | Apr 13, 2010

Institute for the Future’s Booting Up Mobile Health: From Medical Mainframe to Distributed Intelligence (January 2010 May 2009)

IFTF’s description: “Mobile health is emerging at the intersection of dynamic changes in mobility patterns, health care delivery, and new mobile technologies and networks. New technologies and the services they enable will be just one piece of a larger strategy for engaging consumers anywhere, anytime. Ultimately, mobile health will create more distributed health care systems that will move from an episodic to a continuous-care model, supported by decentralized, integrated care interwoven seamlessly into our daily lives, and driven by even more advanced smart systems that help us sense and understand our actions and environments. Over the next decade, a bottom-up transformation of mobility will create a growing number of opportunities and dilemmas for the health care industry. Booting Up Mobile Health: From Medical Mainframe to Distributed Intelligence identifies the drivers shaping mobile health in the future, and forecasts new business and consumer practices that reorganize the health care system as we know it.” Free Download

Why we recommend it: The IFTF really outdid themselves with this report. The introductory chapter delves into the broader implications of mobility — not just mobile phones — but the general and all-encompassing trend of our mobility and how it has transformed our lifestyle. The report then applies the mobility discussion to health, healthcare and wellbeing. Refreshing look for anyone currently steeped in mHealth and seeking inspiration.

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Jen

Thanks for this compilation of resources. One correction may be needed to your citation of the IFTF report… you note January 2010, however, the report appears to have been published in May 2009 (on report cover page).
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Jen,

I think you are right. Check out these two links: http://www.iftf.org/node/2810 (May 2009) and http://www.iftf.org/mobilehealth (January 2010).

Odd. As you noted, it’s clearly dated May 2009 on the front cover though so it doesn’t seem to be a new update or anything.
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