The global market for mobile health products and services is expected to approach $23 billion by 2017, and much of the growth will not happen in the U.S. but rather in less-developed countries, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
That is because emerging markets such as South Africa, India and Brazil are "trailblazers" in mobile health today. "Patients in these markets are much...
The US State Department's Secretary Hillary Clinton recently presented a speech at a USAID conference on the opportunity that mobile phones provide for economic development, healthcare, government, banking and more. Much of it applies to mobile health in developing markets. (You can watch the full video of the speech here.) Here are some of the relevant excerpts:
"Innovation, science, technology...
