Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is currently co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will offer the keynote address at the upcoming 2010 mHealth Summit to be held November 8 – 10 in Washington, D.C. Gates will address the potential of mobile technologies to improve health outcomes in the developing world. This interactive discussion will take part on November 9 at 1:00pm ET.
The event’s goal is connect leaders in health, government, academia, philanthropic organizations and in the private sector to advance discussion and decision making in how mobile technology can be used with health practice, research and policy in the United States and aboard. The summit has a focus on this can aid low and middle income countries.
According to the sponsors mobile health, or mHealth, is rapidly becoming a transformative solution for improving quality healthcare services in poor and remote regions throughout the world. The event will feature more than 150 exhibitors and joining partnering sponsor Verizon Wireless are Abbott Labs, American Telemedicine Association, CTIS, McKesson Foundation, Microsoft Research, Pfizer, Qualcomm, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Skype and West Wireless Health Institute.
2010 mHealth Summit
November 8 – 10
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Washington, D.C.
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