Breaking news from mHealth Summit (Tuesday)

Running coverage of the mHealth Summit. Check this space for updates and links.

Tuesday

Insight on what’s next from Bill Gates: mHealth, mCommerce and robots. Excellent summary of the Bill Gates afternoon keynote (no live video feed). Tip of the hat to Alex Howard of Gov20.govfresh.

HIStalk for Day 2 (and last for him): the keynotes and supersession plus a small session that included Vitality GlowCaps, PhiloMetron's PMTS sensor patch and UCLA's Dr. Ozcan's LUCAS microscope [TA 21 May]. A must read for a contrarian, witty POV. Hat tip to the (anonymous) author, whom we hope finally got something decent to eat. We will miss him tomorrow.

In other news:

• Norad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) is providing $1 million in support for the mHealth Alliance's Maternal mHealth Initiative. Release. Announced by the Alliance's chairman Tom Wheeler during the morning keynote. [Unfortunately, the best part of a somewhat comical morning keynote by Ted Turner expounding on his notions of world peace policy, wandering over the plains like one of his buffalo, with Mr Wheeler politely trying to corral him back to the mHealth point and his support on the UN Foundation's work on eradication of malaria, polio and measles. After the umpteenth blatant plug of CNN and Cartoon Network, I 'turnered' the audio off.--Ed. Donna]
• Healthpoint Services Global, Inc. announced this morning a partnership with The Procter & Gamble Company aimed at advancing a scalable, self-sustaining model for delivery of water, healthcare, and other benefits to underserved rural communities in developing countries. Healthpoint is a for-profit active in India, provides in rural clinics safe drinking water, access to qualified doctors via telemedicine, advanced on-site diagnostics and an on-site licensed pharmacy. In addition they equip and deploy village health workers with mobile phones.  P&G's FutureWorks will provide financial support, people and in-kind services.  PR Newswire release
• MedApps and CardioNet are forming a strategic alliance 'to advance their positions in the mobile wireless medical market'.  What they are doing together is not clear from the release except for this from CardioNet's CEO Joseph Capper:  'We are looking to MedApps to help accelerate our entry into additional areas of monitoring, and to extend our platform utilizing MedApps' CloudCare™ technology.'  Terms not disclosed. BusinessWire. Related news: CardioNet yesterday announced a definitive merger agreement with Biotel, to close by 31 Dec.  This had been postponed since last year.  BusinessWire
• More Text4Baby news: a multi-million dollar commitment from Johnson & Johnson to the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB) Coalition to expand the program both numerically and to add new features; Department of Defense and HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) are evaluating the program for the underserved and military families.  PR Newswire.

Neil Versel's roundup today on FierceMobileHealthcare themed as highlights from the 'Lollapalooza' (annual US rock festival) of mHealth. Inspiring but sober. Dr. Louis Hochheiser's (Humana) hopes on learning patient behaviors via mHealth and as a means of changing behaviors.   Prof. David Gustavson (Univ. WI)  on shortening the long timelines of pharma clinical trials (average 5 years) and other health/science breakthroughs (17 years!).  At Fierce's executive breakfast, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Medical Director Dr. Barry Straube on telehealth and HIT being 'ripe for change' and very important in the cultural change of bringing healthcare to the individual and away from 'brick-and-mortar'.  Cell phones being used for maternal and child health and reducing mortality.  (Dr. Straube to retire 31 Jan 2011 after six years at CMS.  MassDevice)

Blog coverage of Day Two: Brannon Cullum in the Alliance for Youth Movements blog, Day Two highlights (including more on Mr Turner's musings).  Do read down to Theresa Cullen of the Indian Health Service on how in health, our Native American citizens have attributes of both the developed and developing worlds, and Patricia Mechael's 'Top Ten Lessons for mHealth'.

Healthcare IT News hosted live blogging of Tuesday only. CoverIt Live replay (direct link to page):  keynotes by Ted Turner, the AM supersession and the Bill Gates luncheon, concluding with Aneesh Chopra's hyperbolic pep talk.  They also picked up the tweetstream from #mHS10 after midday.