1. mHealth and Cloud Computing in Developing Countries
Eric Gibson Jr

2. Kenya Background Population of more than 43 million people
Half of population living in poverty
As of 2011, their GDP was estimated at billion. However, only 4.6 percent of their GDP was invested in its health care system
Preventable diseases remain a serious issue

3. South Africa Background
Poor distribution of resources between private and public sector health workers, and within the public sector
High rate of HIV/AIDS contraction
Life expectancy at birth is approximately 49 years.

4. What is mHealth?
mHealth is the combining of mobile technologies with existing health care systems to provide health care delivery to customers.
the delivery of health-related services and information via mobile technologies.

5. Sub-Areas of mHealth mHealth & Tele-health mHealth & Wireless Health
Tele-health is the delivery of health-related services and information via telecommunications technologies
mHealth & Wireless Health
 Wireless Health integrates wireless technology into traditional medicine, such as for diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of illness.
mHealth & eHealth
eHealth describes any healthcare practice supported by electronic information processing and communication, so it has broader reach than mHealth, which relates to practices using mobile technologies.

6. Mobile Health or Modern Health?
Mobile Health includes the following
Voice & SMS
Smartphones
Laptop computers
MP3 Players
Patient monitoring devices

7. Mobile Health or Modern Health? (Cont.)
Modern Health includes the following
Digital & electronic mobile health
Telehealth and telemedicine
Electronic sensors & cloud-based monitoring services
Wireless connections
Electronic medical & personal health records

8. Mobile Phone Penetration at a Glance
Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database

9. Why mHealth?
Concerns with the various constraints felt by healthcare systems in developing countries
Rapid rise of mobile phone penetration to large segments of the healthcare workforce and population as a whole in developing countries.

10. mHealth Implementation Challenges
Lack of physician/provider support
Lack of existing technology
Concerns about regulation of applications
Absence of legal guidelines on privacy and confidentiality  

11. mHealth Technology Platform for Patient Engagement Applications (video)
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