Slightly off topic and perhaps more related to our neglected sister site – Virtuate… But this item crossed my Google Reader this morning and consider it important enough to share here.
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets.
Vodafone Ventures Ltd, the corporate venture capital arm of Vodafone Group, has made an undisclosed investment in t+ Medical, which specialises in the use of mobile phone-based to transfer patient biometric data as part of mobile healthcare services.
Although I am slightly biased, I am of the opinion that healthcare represents an enormous, largely untapped market for all things mobile. Vodafone’s move and investment in this area is a smart move even if t+ Medical is not as broad as we would like it to be:
The company specialises in the transfer of patient data using standard mobile phones, into which a patient either enters data or to which vital signs data is automatically relayed – using technology such as bluetooth – from a range of personal monitoring devices.
Truly, you can’t think or talk about Health 2.0 without mobility.
Read the rest here.
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