5. Who has a mobile device?
• >5 billion mobile devices in world
• 3.4 billion people have access (1/2 population)
• 1.2 billion PCs
• 85% of Africans have mobile phones
• 1.13 billion mobile devices sold
• 270 million PCs sold
• 17 month technology cycle in US
• 6 month technology cycle in Japan
6. CNN Statistics
• 82% of American adults own a cell phone
• 17% of them are “smartphones”
• Top three uses
– Texting
– Personal email
– Mobile Web
10. Change is Inevitable
• Predicting 10 times more change in the
next 10 years than we’ve had in the last
10 years
• Don’t have many options to not change
11. Mobile Learning Definition
Educause
• “Mobile learning, or m-learning, can be
any educational interaction delivered
through mobile technology and accessed
at a student’s convenience from any
location.”
12. Healthcare Market for Mobile
Learning
• US healthcare market for mobile learning
products - $104.44 million
• Demand will grow 24% by 2014 - $306.67
million in revenues
• Largest single “vertical niche” in mobile
learning arena – 17% of US market
Ambient Insight – The US Healthcare Market for Mobile Learning Products
and Services 1009-2014 Forecast and Analysis
13. Mobile Learning
• Handheld Decision Support
• Location-based Learning Services
• Device-embedded Learning
14. What’s the Driving Force?
• EHRs
• Patient Safety
• “Expert Patients”
• Quest for efficiency due to healthcare
workforce shortages
15. Mobile devices have:
• Accelerometers
• Compass
• GPS
• Cameras
• Video
• Audio
• HDTV
• Gyroscopes
21. DynaMed
• Download via
SkyScape
• Need a serial number
• Skyscape also comes
with
– Archimedes calculator
– Outline of Clinical
Medicine (OCM)
22. MDConsult
• Special Website
• Create a personal
account at main site
• Caveat: If you go to the
mobile site, it sets a
cookie and makes it
impossible for you to go
to the regular MDConsult
screen (where you could
go to FirstConsult)
UNLESS you go in and
delete the cookie.
26. Patient’s Learning Needs
• Personal Health Records
– GoogleHealth
– Microsoft Health Vault
– NoMoreClipboard
• Information
• Reminders
• Chronic Disease
35. Tracking
• Can you self-manage your health better if
you can track data, aggregate it and see
trends?
• Project HealthDesign from UW and Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
– “Forging a new vision of personal health
records by exploring practical ways to capture
and integrate patient-recorded observations of
daily living into clinical care
– http://www.projecthealthdesign.org/
49. GPS
• Skout
– see photos of potential mates within a certain radius
• Gov 2.0
– see a street that needs to be fixed – send a picture
with the exact coordinates
• Foursquare
– check-in to locations and let your friends know
• City Tours
• Track air pollution
• Yelp
– Find a nearby restaurant
50.
51. GPS in Medicine
• TED talk – Bill Davenhall
– “Your Health Depends on Where You Live”
– “Geomedicine
• Locate user and map it against publically
available data for disease prevalence,
chemical pollution.
• Where do you expose yourself to risks?
• Where you’ve lived may determine your
health
52. Sensors
• No more stethoscopes?
• Bye-bye Holter Monitor
– Replaced by a patch that you send in by mail
• Realtime EKGs
• Vital Signs
• Contractions
• Sleep
• Fetal Heart Rate
• Handheld Ultrasounds
54. FitBit
• Automatically tracks
your fitness and sleep
via tracker in your
pocket, on your
waistband, shirt, bra
or wrist
• Walk within 15 ft of
base station and your
data is automatically
uploaded
55. Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
• ZQ Score
– Calculates total amount of time
you slept (Total Z) then adds
and subtracts points based on
the amount of restorative sleep
(Deep and REM) and disruptive
sleep (time and duration spent
awake) that you get throughout
the night.
59. Augmented Reality
• Add a layer of information to the real world
• Uses camera
• Sometimes needs GPS and compass on
phone
60. QR Codes
• Quick Response
Code
• 2-D Bar Code
• Take a picture with a
phone and use app to
find out more info
about product
• Price comparisons, E-
tickets, Facebook?
• Can generate your
own codes
61. Wikitude
• Scans your surroundings and adds
information about what’s going on around
you
• Uses camera
• Use it in the car too
