Presentation to Asia Pacific Radio Spectrum Conference 2012 for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on mobile health opportunities and challenges Apr 13 2012

1. M-Health: Recent
Development, Challenges
and Opportunities
Charles Mok
Founding Chair, Internet Society Hong Kong
@ APRSC 2012 | 2012.4.13

2. From ‘telemedicine’ to M-health
 Entrenching of tech use
 Changing mindset
 Mobile devices
 Driven by users
 Failure of ‘top-down’ – e.g.
Concern of physical loss
 Users ‘taking matters into their
own hands’

3. Doctors using smartphones (US)

4. Four key areas of M-health
 Communications
 Knowledge
 Integration
 Monitoring

5. Communications
 Doctor-to-doctor (D2D)
 Doctor-to-patient (D2P)
 Patient-to-patient (P2P)

6. Knowledge
 Doctors access to knowledge
and information
 More informed and empowered
patients
 Example: Diabetic Nephropathy
Management Program (Developed
for Dr CP Ho, by Computancy)

7. Example: Diabetic Nephropathy
Management Program

8. Example: Diabetic Nephropathy
Management Program

9. Integration
 Mobile EHR
 Enhanced quality of
healthcare
 Privacy and security

10. Monitoring
 US Dept of Veteran Affairs experiment since 2003
 71,000 veterans now receiving daily monitoring for
conditions such as diabetes, heart diseases and post-
traumatic stress disorder via a “Health Buddy”
 Dec 2008 VA findings:
 Hospital admission: -19%
 Days in hospitals: -25%
 Jan 2009 New England
Healthcare Institute:
 $6.4B savings can be
achieved if for all US
patients at risk of heart
failure

11. Example: Cybertecture Mirror

12. It’s the economics, stupid!
 Not about technology in the end
 Who pays for it? What is the business model?
 Tie to cost savings
 The role of insurance
 Consumerization
 Other challenges:
 Privacy and security concerns
 Interoperability/data standards

13. Thank you!
Charles Mok
Founding Chair, Internet Society Hong Kong
mok@isoc.hk
www.isoc.hk
www.charlesmok.hk