Author Archives: David Doherty

After last years event was the first major international conference to be cancelled due to the global COVID lockdown (which led to use producing the mHealth in Times of Crisis online event last February in which I predicted PCR tests … Continue reading →

“It’s time for the NLdigital NextGen Innovation Technology Event on Thursday, November 12th (online, MS Teams). After all the conspiracy theories about 5G we will, together with leading experts, look at the benefits and possibilities of 5G for healthcare. Four fantastic speakers … Continue reading →

This fascinating Twitter thread by NHS GP Dr Renee Hoenderkamp reminded me how how poorly the RCGP has prepared GPs to manage care in 2020 and got me thinking of specific practical ways that mHealth can meet care needs in … Continue reading →

  Concerns over the Coronavirus have created exceptional circumstances in which the  annual meeting of the $Trillion Mobile Industry (Mobile World Congress in Barcelona) has been cancelled. On Monday the 24th February 2020 we will be gathering together world leaders … Continue reading →

“Many GPs and most Patients will have little previous experience of consulting remotely by video link or smartphone. Using an unfamiliar format at a time of high workload and high anxiety increases the risk of making errors of  judgement, but … Continue reading →

The BBC’s Leo Kelion reports on how social media firms have been asked by the British Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden to be more aggressive in censoring ‘crackpot’ 5G conspiracy theories linking 5G mobile networks to the the coronavirus pandemic following a number of 5G … Continue reading →

Obviously there is 50+ years of history of computers being used to help take Patient histories but most medics are only learning about Patient History Taking questionnaires as a result of the COVID19 PanicDemic so I thought it might be … Continue reading →

Starting at 14.00 UK time (GMT) on Saturday 14th March this online Zoom discussion is scheduled to run for around 90 minutes and will include a number of initial short talks followed by a group discussion (in which all online attendees … Continue reading →

Download newsletter (.PDF) It’s very sad that in 2020 we’re now seeing the NIH adding it’s weight to this incredibly dangerous promotion of using mobiles as laboratory equipment… 

The European mHealth Hub is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the action “Establishing EU mHealth Hub including evidence for the integration of mHealth in the healthcare systems” (Grant Agreement No 737427) … Continue reading →