Overcoming the Quality Gap and Ethics in M-Health

Abstract

Image transmission systems and remote monitoring were born with the mission of bringing aid and permit the access to quality diagnosis in rural isolated areas, where people are excluded from the “global network”. Still, in rural setting, a strong obstacle is represented by the lack of education. The tool that has quickly become omnipresent even in the most hard-to-reach places is the mobile phone and more specifically the smartphone. Microscopes, ultrasound, and other point-of-care devices can utilize a smartphone for processing power or become components that can directly function with a smartphone. The main goal, since the beginning of m-health, is to provide education and health care to all in the most remote places, and to use each innovation to improve the lives. In a global way.