“Two-thirds of physicians own smartphones, Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint, told the standing-room-only crowd at HIMSS as he kicked off the first keynote session of the 2010 annual meeting. With the emergence of the 4G network in 2010, we’ve got the infrastructure for delivering remote care with the kind of image quality even the most eagle-eyed radiologist will require, according to this telecomms CEO.
Other parts of the world that spend a much lower percentage of GDP on health care have leapfrogged the U.S. in mobile health. Globally, there are more mobile phones adopted than PCs, TVs, and cars combined. Mobile phones are the fastest adopted technology in the history of the planet, Hesse judged. The other startling statistic he pointed to is that 10 mobile phones are manufactured for every one birth on Earth. !”
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi, 2 March 2010
