MHIS 2010: Speakers and delegates
Words and photos: Salina Christmas
8 October 2010

Apart from top-down descriptions of mobile phone-based technologies, the summit also featured presentations that focused on the sociality around mobile health systems and devices. There were talks on 'insertion points' and common denominators, but they all boiled down to the notion of mobile phones being the extension of the self, and how people, in healthcare settings, interact with these 'm-health' objects. And while talks went on at the front of the hall, the audience at the back engaged with the extension of themselves, namely their mobile phones, Flip cameras, laptops and tablets.

Left: Ilka Vartiainen, CEO, European Mobile Health Alliance (EUMHA) checks his messages. Right: Eric Leven, Director, Riproad, is constantly on email communications on his Mac.
Left: Brian Dolan, Editor, Mobilehealthnews.com, who is chairing several of the talks, is being captured on a Flip camera. Right: It's good to text.
Left: David Doherty, co-founder, 3G Doctor, tweets throghout the summit. Right: Doherty, pictured left, and Informa Telecoms & Media Conference Manager Sophie Powell, pictured right, keeping up-to-date using the laptops.
Left: The charismatic Don Jones, VP Healthcare, Qualcomm, explains the Qualcomm chip to Tam McDonald, CEO, Harley Street World, during filming. Right: The cameraman asks Jones to hold that pose a little longer for the shot.
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Thomas Bergdahl (pictured,   right) of Doro AB shows Clinica the Doro mobile phones. We like the red   model.
Left: A delegate texts as Robin Spinks, Principal Manager, Digital Accessibility, Royal Institute of the Blind (RNIB) talks about health wellness functionality at source for devices. Right: Spinks shows how the iPad works in this context.
Left: The iPad wows Clinica. In the background, Dr Talya Miron-Shatz, Head, Center for Medical Decision Making, Ono Academic College, Israel/University of Pennsylvania. Right: Qualcomm devices on display outside the conference hall.
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