Report on Using Mobile Health Technology To Fight TB

A new report by the Stop TB Partnership and the mHealth Alliance outlines how mobile health technology could help diagnose tuberculosis in the field, encourage patients to adhere to TB medication regimens and monitor TB treatment. FierceMobileHealthcare.

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Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
  • patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
  • transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
  • institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
  • vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.

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Benefit from new technologies... enable people to have remote access to CBT

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