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Success In mHealth: Shifting Focus From The ‘m’ To The ‘Health’ (Forbes) is an interesting but curiously upside-down article, by which I mean that it would have more immediate appeal if it started with the final section When mHealth becomes just Health before unleashing the statistics. The author is Dr Alain Labrique, founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative.
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I find it interesting to look to history when any other experience converged to mobile to such an extend that it became outwardly invisible we just began referring it mobile.
I think that once we have managed to simplify health experiences through the use of mobile it will be obvious that a similar evolution took place:
http://mhealthinsight.com/2012/07/05/why-were-more-likely-to-drop-the-health-than-the-m-in-mhealth/