After taking mHealth Apps native with it’s S Health bundled offering Samsung has now hit it’s stride with record sales of 10m shipments of it’s top of the line Smartphone in the first month.
It’s getting easier to see how medical device, pharma and healthcare experiences will converge to the mobile in this decade just as consumer devices (Calculators, PDAs, Cameras, etc) and services (photo development, birthday cards, payment, etc) did in the last (Nokia) decade…
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Can you think of any other major Health brand that has doubled it’s installed customer base in the last 5 weeks?
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[…] S Health is a fantastic development from Samsung. The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has already sold 10 million units (NOW 20 MILLION!) and it’s unique in that it’s brought smartphone based mobile healthcare applications native on a globally retailed mobile. S Health bundles a pedometer (a useful barometer for activity levels that has already become very popular in Japan where Doctors can with one glance get an appreciation of a Patients activity trends), temperature and humidity – can you imagine how this could be used to help us manage the healthcare needs of individuals when there’s a heatwave? An enormous opportunity for Mobile Operators to be involved in providing care! […]