During our three days at the mHealth Summit in Washington DC this week, the MobiHealthNews team conducted dozens of interviews on camera for a forthcoming video produced and shot by Ethan Goldwater. The slideshow below includes some snapshots from the many mHealth luminaries we interviewed on-site.
mHealth Summit keynoter Bill Gates managed to tie the opportunity for mobile health to one of his current causes -- vaccines -- in various ways during his on-stage interview with Microsoft Research's Kristin Tolle. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
mHealth Summit keynote speaker Ted Turner: "What good is it going to be if we hook up the whole world's medical information by satellite, Internet or cell phones if we blow the world up?" Hard to argue with that. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
America's very first national Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, gave an incredible enthusiastic presentation about mobile health opportunities. Chopra highlighted Text4Baby, the Blue Button initiative and the SHARP grant winners working to create a modular suite of EMR apps. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
HHS CTO Todd Park announced that "101,962 to be exact" people are using Text4Baby today. He also ended his keynote talk with a sign-off that included a Star Wars reference: "May the force be with you." (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
MobiHealthNews spotted Matt Berg, Tech Lead for the Millennium Villages Project and picked as one of Time Magazine's Top 100 Influential People of 2010. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins poignantly noted that the opposite of "global" is not "domestic" during his keynote talk at the mHealth Summit. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
David Aylward, head of the mHealth Alliance, announces one of the three $1 million grants the Alliance officially received during the mHealth Summit. One for each day: HP, Norad (Norway), and the Rockefeller Foundation. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
FrontlineSMS:Medic's Josh Nesbit participated in the Emergency Response & Mobile Technology panel during one of the concurrent sessions at the mHealth Summit. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
mDhil CEO and Founder Nandu Madhava told MobiHealthNews that his company's SMS-based health information service now counts more than 250,000 paid users in India. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
The Pew Internet Project's Susannah Fox reminded attendees at the mHealth Summit that 9 percent of mobile users have downloaded an app that helps them track or manage their own health. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
Healthagen founder Dr Peter Hudson explains how his company's app helps users find the most appropriate healthcare facility for their particular health issue. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
The West Wireless Health Institute's CEO Don Casey told MobiHealthNews that mobile health = Disruption. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater)
3GDoctor's David Doherty waits patiently before explaining to a booth visitor that yes, yes you can discuss health issues with your doctor via mobile video. (Photos by Ethan Goldwater, learn more about Ethan's work at his site here)
