Mobile Health Expo conference program highlights international nature of mobile health

Aug 30 2010

Mobile Health Expo™, the only event focusing on the convergence of mobile technology and healthcare across the entire mobile health ecosystem, today revealed some highlights from the conference program that focuses on the truly international nature of mobile health. Speakers representing both developing and developed nations will share case studies and best practices of how mobile health is being used in other countries.

“mHealth Monitoring for Arrhythmia Patients in the Republic of Georgia”

"We are all too familiar with how healthcare can be exclusionary to segments of the population that don't have economic means or access to available services. Mobile health is all about health inclusion, and how to reach populations that are at risk and are difficult to reach in the traditional healthcare delivery model in both developed and developing countries," said Wendy Thomas, founder and organizer of Mobile Health Expo. "One of our goals for Mobile Health Expo is to showcase mobile technologies that move us toward a delivery system of health inclusion that reaches patients regardless of socio-economic status or geographic proximity to healthcare providers. Our esteemed group of speakers represent many countries from around the world and will be sharing mobile health best practices that can be applied in other nations."

Some of the featured international speakers are:

Dr. Phillip Olla: Chair of Research for the New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Council, "The Future of Point of Care Diagnostics: The Mobile Lab on a Chip (MoLOC) Innovation"

Ashifi Gogo: CEO at Sproxil, "Using Mobile Authentication Services to Improve Health in Developing Nations"

Hima Batavia: Research Associate, Columbia University's Center for Global Health and Economic Development, "Barriers and Gaps to mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries"

Kristoffer Karlson: Founder and CIO of Dansk Telemedicin, "How Cell Phones Have Improved Workflow and Collaboration for Wound Management Teams in Denmark"

Hiliary Critchley: Vice President Strategy of Casscells Associates, "Emergency Response in Haiti"

Maka Gegenava, MD, PhD, Partners for Health/Tibilisi State Medical University in the Republic of Georgia, and Zviad Kirtava, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine at Tbilisi State Medical Universite in the Republic of Georgia, "mHealth Monitoring for Arrhythmia Patients in the Republic of Georgia"

The reduced registration rate for attendees expires on September 10.