Mar 07, 2025
The UdG Science and Technology Park and the TicSalut Foundation, in collaboration with the Mediterranean-Pyreneed Euro-region are organising the fifth R&D+I meeting in ICT and health on June the 5th and 6th in Girona.
Mar 03, 2025
The synergy effect between healthcare and technology is well known in society nowadays. The interest for this new trend is growing rapidly. Mobile World Congress 2014 (MWC) has showing this fact giving to the mHealth a significant part.
Feb 25, 2025
Developed countries are under intense pressure to reduce the cost of healthcare, whereas developing countries have a greater need to deliver life-saving services more broadly. Mobile technology offers unprecedented potential to make healthcare more effective, scalable and affordable. What role can mobile play in delivering future healthcare worldwide?
Feb 21, 2025
The cost-effectiveness and the Return of Inversion (ROI) of any technology can be easily measured. Now, social impact can be monetized as well. This is especially useful for mHealth entrepreneurs, as it has been proven by the Innovation Unit at Hospital Clínico San Carlos (Spain), which efforts are aimed at bringing global social progress through mobile health. Their findings show that for each euro invested on mHealth, the community gets three euros of social impact in the worst-case scenario.
Feb 19, 2025
The presence of mHealth in the Mobile World Congress has been increasing exponentially over the last three years. This is a direct consequence of the importance that mHealth has steadily gained due to the continuing use of mobile devices in the health field.
Feb 18, 2025
Medic Mobile is a non-profit organisation focused on creating tools and applications in developing countries. mHealth becomes more democratic because low-cost mobile phones may also benefit from its use, and allows a stronger doctor-patient relationship due to a greater spreading of health information. Although more technologic initiatives are still needed, mHealth is revolutionising health in developing countries.
