Ed Dodds, Collaboration Strategist, Conmergence.com

A call for collaboration by international groups to reduce maternal and newborn mortality by employing mobile technologies includes a joint statement with five primary action areas: More

The Federal agency tasked in bringing telecommunications to rural America is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Its June 7, 2010 Round One Awards Report, Connecting Rural America, summarized the state of the projects (68 funded thus far) of the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP), part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. More

While I strive to be data-driven in my blogging, I think being a participant in the Tennessee Floods of May, 2010 may have taken the testing of the eHealth paradigm a bit too far. The experience comes with priceless wisdom. More

The California HealthCare Foundation released "How Smartphones Are Changing Health Care for Consumers and Providers" prepared by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, M.A., M.H.S.A. Sarasohn-Kahn reviewed the demographics of mobile internet users, reviewed smartphone applications for clinicians and consumers, medical reference tools, continuing medical education, EHRs and PHRs, patient and health consumer support. She then recited barriers to adoption and some insights from early adoption. More

There have been some big governmental processes in the news lately which will have a huge impact on mHealth. That's right, India is finally going ahead with its 3G spectrum auction. Slated for April 9, the auction will be followed with a broadband wireless access auction a couple of days later. More

My assumption is that over time mHealth will grow to more heavily interconnect with consumer driven health plans and healthcare savings (and related) accounts. Two sessions at the recent HIMSS 8th National Medical Banking Institute provided current information which I think Mobility Blog readers will find valuable. More

One of the memes of medical banking is the role transparency can play to wring out the fraud in the healthcare system. One of the topics I've been monitoring has been the global adoption of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL--pronounced eks-Burl). More

The crisis in Haiti has served as an opportunity to bring mobile applications to the fore. Though a tragic incident, I am encouraged when I see evidence of transparent global collaboration (the "secret sauce" behind the open source movement) empowered by what I call the digitally, distributed enterprise-enabled collaborative results-only work environment (thanks to Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson and Peter Yim for all the appropriate descriptors). When extended to new challenging endeavors, this great global grid, in a phrase, will put an end to "geo-lock," which means that information intensive tasks which can be completed by subject matter experts wherever they happen to live will be. More

One concern about extending healthcare's digital enterprise to WLANs and their equivalents is the exposure to financial data that mobile devices create. Several European countries have advanced to the point where they arelegislatively phasing out paper checks, and others are discussing it, and their backbone best practices include end-to-end encryption (though not always foolproof). American card networks, on the other hand, have a track record of backing off deadlines for the most basic security precautions. More