In the future of mHealth/mobile health technology will obtain accurate health information, including vital events such as birth records, death records and loss of pregnancies, so that communities receive delivery of required health services.
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I think what excites me the most is going back to that basic foundational capacity to count, to be able to now improve our capacity. To build strong health information foundations within communities, to be able to enumerate population, to be able to record vital events, births, deaths, pregnancy losses, and begin now to have that foundation as the basis of accountability for the delivery of required health services to those populations.
Alain Labrique, MD, of the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control Program of the Department of International Health, explains what mHealth technology is and how smartphones can be used to make healthcare more affordable and effective.
