60 Minutes: Marty Cooper and mHealth

By: Brian Dolan | May 24, 2010

CBS’ 60 Minutes program last night featured a story on Marty Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone. The program includes a number of mentions of mobile health, including mentions of MedApps and Montage Systems. A number of the clips are from the showfloor at CTIA Wireless 2010, where MobiHealthNews put on our Everywhere Healthcare event.

Marty Cooper is also on the board of GreatCall, the parent company to Jitterbug, which has a number of health services available to its users through the Jitterbug handsets.

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http://www.GlobaltelMedia.com Robert Sanchez

Thank you for the post Brian, this was a great piece on the development of the cell phone and its original inventor Marty Cooper. It was very interesting to see 60 minutes take on mHealth, albeit limited. At Globaltel Media we’ve tailored our SMS-based messaging solutions to be used for a variety of healthcare related activities, from sharing information between doctors, to appointment scheduling/reminders, to rehabilitation demos sent via mobile video. Its great to see these types of systems be developed in the healthcare space, as they provide benefits to not only the providers running the system (efficiency, cost, etc) but more importantly the patients who will be actively using the system to improve their well being.

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