Mobile Health Expo: pointer to a ‘real world’ future

[Editor Donna will be reflecting on last week’s Mobile Health Expo in a series of articles starting here.  The MHE consisted of six major keynotes, 60 breakout sessions plus a small expo floor and other ‘scenarios’ – plus Las Vegas itself.  Donna moderated six sessions plus interviewed and spoke with numerous key figures in the industry.  The long days—plus, amazingly zero hotel connectivity—meant she wound up not filing during the conference, which was just as well as no one person could have covered it all.  This is her POV snapshot.]

MHE confirmed for me the fast maturing of mobile health—in a less than two year time frame.  By ‘maturing’ I mean interest moving away from prototypes, ‘wowza’ gizmos not-yet-in-market and large doses of lofty system theory, to real-world products and services that have business models and are finding their markets plus partners.  The emphasis was on case studies and applications for products in market, not on ‘what ifs’ or endless discussions of products needing FDA approval and financing to get into the market—and some other key indicators like…