“The applications of mobile health monitoring via cell phone seem limitless, two experts say. “The cell phone is perfect because it’s like a wristwatch that you carry around,” Shankar Sastry, dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, says in an audio interview with iHealthBeat. Cell phones can provide two pieces missing from healthcare today: personal access to medical records and the ability to become a distributed sensor network. “It changes electronic medical records to be personal health records,” Sastry explains.”
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare, 21 July 2009
