More On Mobile Health, From ComputerWeekly.com

Mobile health is starting to take root in developing countries. Initiatives underway include;

• Collecting population-based medical information.
• Giving diagnostic and analytic tools to health workers.
• Delivering educational programs with airtime as an incentive.
• Improving medication compliance with SMS text alerts.
• Creating the "mHealth for Development" programme, co-sponsored by the UN Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Vodafone.
• Curbing the spread of epidemics.
• Gathering vital statistics in rural areas of Columbia.
• Embedding mobile phone chips in prescription bottles.

Maybe I've missed something, but I don't hear much about these ideas where I live - in the so-called "developed" world. Perhaps it's easier to get things done when you're only fighting poverty and disease, not entrenched corporate interests who dog your every step.