2009 Inaugural mHealth Summit Brings Together Health, Technology and Policy Communities to Advance Technological Innovation in Global Healthcare
Business Wire, Oct 29, 2009
Summits Vision is to Accelerate Implementation of Wireless
Technology for Healthcare Research and Delivery Worldwide
WASHINGTON — The 2009 mHealth (Mobile Health) Summit, organized by the Foundation for
the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), today opens an unprecedented
two-day summit. It is bringing together more than 800 public and private
sector science, medical, policy and mobile technology experts to develop
a new roadmap related to the integration of science and wireless
solutions to improve public health delivery, particularly to underserved
populations, in the U.S. and around the world.
Attendees to the 2009 International mHealth came from more than 25
countries.
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This mHealth Summit challenges the science and technology communities
to collaborate and craft a vision for innovation, solving problems and
implementing solutions by using the mobile platform, notes Dr. Charles
A. Sanders, Chairman of the Board, Foundation for NIH. mHealth has the
potential to transform public healthcare research and delivery, relieve
over-stretched health systems, and revolutionize healthcare in the U.S.
and the developing world.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote addresses will be delivered by senior officials including: Kathleen
Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS); Dr.
Francis S
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