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The GSMA is currently lobbying the Spanish Government to have Mobile World Congress cancelled (so that it can claim back insurance). UPDATE: The 2020 Mobile World Congress has been cancelled. I had no plans to travel to Mobile World Congress as … Continue reading →

An interesting paper asking “What is the clinical value of mHealth for patients?” has been published in Nature by Simon P. Rowland (Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London), J. Edward Fitzgerald (KPMG International), Thomas Holme (Department of trauma … Continue reading →

In 2019 there were just 22 mHealth events held around the world (in the USA, Israel, UK, Spain, Dublin, France and India). You can click here to view the events that were held in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010. … Continue reading →

It’s of course a great validation of the value of the 3G Doctor service that we launched in 2006 that Amazon have put a similar service at the heart of their new Amazon Care service for employees in the Seattle … Continue reading →

Mobile Devices and Health was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., Ph.D who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim). It’s exactly the type … Continue reading →

The European Parliament has approved copyright legislation including Article 11 (a “link tax,” that requires web platform to obtain a license to link to or use snippets of news articles) and Article 13 (that will require a web platform to make their … Continue reading →

Man told he’s going to die by doctor on video-link robot mHealth Insights This is a terrible news story for those keen to see the modernisation of how healthcare is  delivered particularly as Kaiser was the world’s first major Healthcare … Continue reading →

Last year mHealth fell off the radar for the GSMA and there was no mHealth content at the world’s biggest mobile industry conference and exhibition (held annually in Barcelona – https://mhealthinsight.com/2017/01/31/mhealth-guide-to-the-2017-mobile-world-congress/ https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/conference-programmes/agenda/#day=7808&keyword=health           GLOMO Awards: Fourth … Continue reading →

Next week (11-15 February 2019) in Orlando (USA) 45,000 delegates will attend the world’s biggest Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition and we’ll be there for meetings and to learn about and share mHealth innovations with readers of the mHealth Insight … Continue reading →

Tim Cook teases new Apple services to come in 2019. Related Post: Apple senior management have made it clear: they’re going all in on Healthcare (October 2017).