M+ Health
January 24, 2012
Dubai, UAE
Rising costs, scarce resources and lack of capacity, coupled with the rise in lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension are all contributing to a crisis in healthcare in the Arab World with a huge burden on the existing healthcare systems in the region. Mobile health technology allows medical professionals to manage many patients remotely. This technology can monitor their conditions in real time and pass on vital statistical information between the healthcare provider and the patient.
mHealth is a new and booming trend in the healthcare industry, and is set to become a trillion dollar industry allowing the delivery of better healthcare whilst positively impacting the bottom line across the range of stakeholders in the healthcare industry. The first m+health conference, brought to you by Arab Health and Ovum, will take place on 24 January 2012 at the Arab Health Exhibition & Congress in Dubai with a view to forge the future of mobile health in the Middle East.
Objectives:
- Appraise the dependency of monitoring disease on mobile health
- Assess the commercial viability of implementing a mobile health strategy in your institution
- Assess the clinical benefits of adopting mobile health
- Measure specific improvements via performance based outcome in chronic illness
- Identify the dependence of technology in the implementation process
Target audience:
- Physicians in all specialties
- Chief Executive Officers
- Chief Operations Officers
- Chief Financial Officers
- Presidents and Vice Presidents
- Medical Directors
- Executive Directors
- Managing Directors
- Chairpersons
- Department Heads
- Ministry of Health
- Quality Management
- Healthcare Advisors
- Healthcare strategists
- Healthcare investment fund managers
- Heads of strategy and branding from Telecoms and Pharmaceuticals
