Watching this interesting Exponential Medicine 2013 talk by Dale Fox, CEO of Tribogenics, and I can’t help but think that the low cost pocketable X-Ray machine that his company has developed (that runs on nothing more than a 9 volt battery) is going to disrupt more than medical imaging as X-Ray technology finally arrives at it’s “transistor moment”.

Although I really don’t like to have to I’ve commented on several unethical applications of mHealth tech but I think the unintended ‘weapon’ applications of a pocketable inexpensive X-Ray machine will make these very obvious (take a look at the logistics, expense and collateral damage involved in the Russian state-sponsored operation to fatally poison Alexander Litvinenko).

Can you think of any ways that we can help ensure that mHealth technologies aren’t misused to cause harm instead of deliver health?