Thursday, March 10, 2011

How Mobile Phones Can Transform Healthcare

9:56 AM Tuesday March 8, 2011 
by David Aylward  | Comments (5)

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week seriesexamining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.
The mobile phone is a strong contender as a key transforming agent in the future of health and healthcare. There are nowmore than 5.3 billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. We now have a pathway to reach the unreached, and to deliver health services where people are, not merely in health facilities. /.../

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