Merging mobile and biomed engineering - future of HealthIT

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"...And researchers, including George Whitesides at Harvard University, are trying to use mobile phones to bring medical care to remote corners of the world where people otherwise would have to walk for a day or more to see a doctor or nurse. Whitesides' group has been working on a paper chip that could be touched with a drop of blood and then photographed and text messaged to a clinic that could analyze it and offer a diagnosis...."

Effects of mobile on society

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/10/tech/mobile/our-mobile-society-intro-oms/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

"The Agricultural Revolution took thousands of years to run its course. The Industrial Revolution required a few centuries. The Information Revolution, propelled by mobile technology will likely reshape our world on the order of decades," Saylor writes. "But despite the turbulence ahead, we live at one of the greatest times in history. Software will suffuse the planet, filling in every niche, and exciting opportunities will lie everywhere..."

Mobile is evolving

"fring is the 1st company to bring mobile Group Video calling across platforms, for free, so that users can see all their friends at the same time, and on one screen."

Fring Group Video goes live, enables four-way mobile video calls for free -- Engadget
http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/27/fring-group-video-goes-live-enables-four-way-mobile-video-calls/&category=classic&postPage=2&icid=eng_latest_art