Jun 7 2012
The Every Child Deserves a 5th Birthday theme for this week is mHealth, an e-mail alert from USAID reports. "While health effects typically take hold first in the richest parts of society then trickle down, mobile technology gives everyone access to the same information at the same time, so they can use it in the same way," the email states, adding, "By implementing mobile technologies like SMS texting, using geographical tagging, and sending photos to aid in diagnosis, mHealth can be transformative" (6/5).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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