Telehealth Faces Challenges Worldwide

Wireless mobile technologies have great potential to improve global health. But the challenges facing the implementation of mobile health IT worldwide are different than those faced by the efforts to use health IT in the U.S. to transform patient outcomes.

In developing countries, such as nations in Africa and Asia, including Uganda and India, low cost wireless biometric sensors and cell phone technologies are being developed and piloted to monitor and screen patients for developing heath concerns, ranging from problems in patients with HIV to complications in pregnant women, said speakers during a panel this week at the annual Connected Health Symposium presented by Partners Healthcare in Boston.

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