Sometimes they just don't get it

An article in the WSJ discusses "mHealth." Unfortunately, what Stephanie Simon calls mHealth, I just call making existing devices smaller and less expensive via better engineering. When Eric Topol, who should know better concedes that, “something will be lost when most face-to-face visits with physicians are replaced by wireless exchange of data,” he sets back the real changes that mHealth can have by months if not years.

Delivering healthcare via your mobile phone is not (only) about having teleconferences instead of face to face visits. It's about changing the paradigm of healthcare and driving more decisions via data instead of intuition. Sorry Eric and Stephanie, but I cannot make it any clearer.