Brookings Workshop Explores Cultural Changes Needed To Drive mHealth

Physicians and patients may need to become more comfortable with giving up some privacy in exchange for achieving better clinical outcomes, speakers suggested at a Brookings Institution workshop.

Five years from now, the mobile health industry will be much faster-moving and in some ways unrecognizable from today’s field, speakers predicted at a May 22 workshop on mobile technology and health innovation at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

Workshop moderator Darrell West, vice president and director of governance studies at Brookings, said mHealth is expected to become a...

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