More than the e-health, mHealth could be the key to a better life for the masses in developing countries.
The groundbreaking "mHealth for Development" study produced by the UN/Vodafone Foundation Partnership lists more than 50 mHealth programmes from around the world, showing the benefits that mobile technology can bring to healthcare provision.
Simply connecting rural areas with city doctors using mobile broadband would allow the provision of better healthcare to more people, and many of the initiatives to date have focused on that kind of connection, it is pointed out.
A band of paramedics in a mobile broadband-equipped van visited the villages and were able to cover vast areas, referring many queries back to doctors in major cities.
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Because 3G mobile technology is cheap and easily made widespread, comparatively small amounts of investment can wreak great change in these so-called emerging markets
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