Let the conversation continue: mHealth, eHealth, and more

If you haven’t heard, today at 4pm EST Ashoka will be hosting its monthly, twitter-based Social Entrepreneurship Chat. This month’s conversation is on mHealth and eHealth challenges and prospects for the future, and comes just one week after the mHealth World Bank Day and the mHealth Summit, sponsored by the Foundation for the National Institute of Health.

If you are not a twitter user, fear not!, a #SocEntChat is a great way to dive into a topic you are interested in and “meet” many people interested in a similar field.
I encourage you to join in the conversation or at least follow along. More details can be found here.

And in case you missed either of the conferences last week, here is a list of some recent post-conference write-ups and takeaways from others:
Learning from mHealth Summit by John Chilmark; World Bank Day @ mHealth Summit – Aftermath by Florian Sturm; Magic and mHealth at TEDMED and mHS09 by Brian Dolan

Although I spend most of my time looking at the diagnostic tools, I can’t help but get excited about what looks like is going to be a convergence between diagnostic tools and mobile phones. For example, the new Vscan, an ultrasound trapped in an iPod’s body, is a new tool developed by GE that will be available next year. (Hat-tip to Aman at globalhealthideas.org for the heads up.) Though not yet linked to a mobile device, I doubt it will be much time until that happens. Similarly, here is Katrin Verclas’ post about an ultrasound probe syncing with mobile phones.