Will smartphones make us healthier?

ZDNet Healthcare's Dana Blankenhorn argues that smartphones will make us healthier: "We are still at the start of the evolution but it's time to ask the question. Will smartphones help make us healthier? Right now the fitness-obsessed and hypochondriac are getting some serious help. Many doctors have a new toy. But is anything really happening? I argue that it is. As smartphones become a platform as important as desktops they change the way we live in subtle ways." More

Halamanka: mHealth is cool, finally

Dr. John Halamanka dubs mHealth as the "Cool Technology of the Week" as part of a weekly feature he pens at his Life as a Healthcare CIO blog: "The iPhone is quickly turning into a major resource for accessing mobile health applications. Although I find the iPhone a challenging device for data entry, it's a great device for data viewing. Realtime viewing of waveform, imaging and text data via a handheld mobile device. That's cool!" More

CHIP: Make healthcare system more like an iPhone platform

Boston's Children's Hospital's Informatics Program published a group of principles to guide the creation of a new health information infrastructure for the U.S. The piece was a follow-up on an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine in March. The latest article argued for the development of a platform model, very much like Apple iPhone's setup, to encourage the development of "substitutable" health care applications. More (via Chilmark Research)