Institute For The Future

More on the smartphone as a mobile health tool

A special report recently released by iHealthBeat states that physicians are adopting smart phone technology faster than other U.S. consumers. "According to Manhattan Research, 54% of U.S. doctors own a PDA or smartphone -- and more than half of them consider it to be an integral part of their practice." You can find an example of how mobile health is playing out in the lives of doctors and their patients in a story the Sacramento Bee ran the other day entitled, "With new smartphones, doctors reinvent the house call."