1. Mobile Computing and Your
Future
Mary Markland
SE Clinical Campus Librarian
October 29. 2010

2. Thanks to….
• TED talk
– Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine
– http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_topol_the_wireless_future_of_
medicine.html
• ADL Mobile Learning Guide
– http://mlearn.adlnet.gov
• Judy Brown
– http://www.judybrown.com
• Melissa Rethlefson
– http://www.slideshare.net/mlrethlefsen/mcmla-2010-tech-trends-5298150

3. Last week at CNN.com

4. Ubiquitous

5. Who has a mobile device?
• >5 billion mobile devices in world
• 3.4 billion people have access (1/2 population)
• 1.2 billion PCs
• 85% of Africans have mobile phones
• 1.13 billion mobile devices sold
• 270 million PCs sold
• 17 month technology cycle in US
• 6 month technology cycle in Japan

6. CNN Statistics
• 82% of American adults own a cell phone
• 17% of them are “smartphones”
• Top three uses
– Texting
– Personal email
– Mobile Web

8. Winners of MID Design
Competition

9. Why Should You Care?

10. Change is Inevitable
• Predicting 10 times more change in the
next 10 years than we’ve had in the last
10 years
• Don’t have many options to not change

11. Mobile Learning Definition
Educause
• “Mobile learning, or m-learning, can be
any educational interaction delivered
through mobile technology and accessed
at a student’s convenience from any
location.”

12. Healthcare Market for Mobile
Learning
• US healthcare market for mobile learning
products - $104.44 million
• Demand will grow 24% by 2014 - $306.67
million in revenues
• Largest single “vertical niche” in mobile
learning arena – 17% of US market
Ambient Insight – The US Healthcare Market for Mobile Learning Products
and Services 1009-2014 Forecast and Analysis

13. Mobile Learning
• Handheld Decision Support
• Location-based Learning Services
• Device-embedded Learning

14. What’s the Driving Force?
• EHRs
• Patient Safety
• “Expert Patients”
• Quest for efficiency due to healthcare
workforce shortages

15. Mobile devices have:
• Accelerometers
• Compass
• GPS
• Cameras
• Video
• Audio
• HDTV
• Gyroscopes

16. What Can You Do Now?
Information Resources

19. http://undmedlibrary.org/mobile

21. DynaMed
• Download via
SkyScape
• Need a serial number
• Skyscape also comes
with
– Archimedes calculator
– Outline of Clinical
Medicine (OCM)

22. MDConsult
• Special Website
• Create a personal
account at main site
• Caveat: If you go to the
mobile site, it sets a
cookie and makes it
impossible for you to go
to the regular MDConsult
screen (where you could
go to FirstConsult)
UNLESS you go in and
delete the cookie.

24. PubMed
• PubMed for
Handhelds
– Web site
• PubMed on Tap
– App
• PubSearch Plus
– App

25. AHRQ ePSS

26. Patient’s Learning Needs
• Personal Health Records
– GoogleHealth
– Microsoft Health Vault
– NoMoreClipboard
• Information
• Reminders
• Chronic Disease

29. Asthmapolis
• GPS enabled
inhaler tracks
usage
• Sends text if
forget to take
your medicine

31. “There’s an App for That”

35. Tracking
• Can you self-manage your health better if
you can track data, aggregate it and see
trends?
• Project HealthDesign from UW and Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
– “Forging a new vision of personal health
records by exploring practical ways to capture
and integrate patient-recorded observations of
daily living into clinical care
– http://www.projecthealthdesign.org/

36. Some of their projects

38. • 1.2 million sold

39. your.flowingdata.com

41. • Body Measurements
• Energy Level
• Exercise
• Flu
• Food
• Job Satisfaction
• Medication
• Meditation
• HbA1c
• Cholesterol
• Weight
• Mood
• Notes
• Pain
• Sex
• Sleep Symptoms
• TV
• Wake Ups
• Blood Pressure
• Heart Rate
• Asthma
• Ovulation

44. iFitness

46. Diamedic Diabetes

47. Accelerometors
• PocketCPR
– Tells anyone how to
do CPR
– Measures rate and
depth of chest
compressions

49. GPS
• Skout
– see photos of potential mates within a certain radius
• Gov 2.0
– see a street that needs to be fixed – send a picture
with the exact coordinates
• Foursquare
– check-in to locations and let your friends know
• City Tours
• Track air pollution
• Yelp
– Find a nearby restaurant

51. GPS in Medicine
• TED talk – Bill Davenhall
– “Your Health Depends on Where You Live”
– “Geomedicine
• Locate user and map it against publically
available data for disease prevalence,
chemical pollution.
• Where do you expose yourself to risks?
• Where you’ve lived may determine your
health

52. Sensors
• No more stethoscopes?
• Bye-bye Holter Monitor
– Replaced by a patch that you send in by mail
• Realtime EKGs
• Vital Signs
• Contractions
• Sleep
• Fetal Heart Rate
• Handheld Ultrasounds

53. Wireless Body Area Networks

54. FitBit
• Automatically tracks
your fitness and sleep
via tracker in your
pocket, on your
waistband, shirt, bra
or wrist
• Walk within 15 ft of
base station and your
data is automatically
uploaded

55. Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
• ZQ Score
– Calculates total amount of time
you slept (Total Z) then adds
and subtracts points based on
the amount of restorative sleep
(Deep and REM) and disruptive
sleep (time and duration spent
awake) that you get throughout
the night.

56. • From Corventis
• “Smart Bandaid”

57. • Diagnose poor balance
when walking
• Future – vibration device
to alert user
• BMI
• Weight
• Balance Score
• Audio output
• WiFi

58. Zamzee
• For kids
• Online
rewards
based on
physical
activity

59. Augmented Reality
• Add a layer of information to the real world
• Uses camera
• Sometimes needs GPS and compass on
phone

60. QR Codes
• Quick Response
Code
• 2-D Bar Code
• Take a picture with a
phone and use app to
find out more info
about product
• Price comparisons, E-
tickets, Facebook?
• Can generate your
own codes

61. Wikitude
• Scans your surroundings and adds
information about what’s going on around
you
• Uses camera
• Use it in the car too

62. Layar Reality Browser
• Real estate listings
• Restaurants & menus
• Museums
• Historical Sites
• Sales
• Coupons for nearby
businesses
• VIP Passes

63. Google Goggles
• Text
– Translation
• Landmarks
• Book cover
– Where to buy
• Artwork
– Websites
• Logos
• Wine

64. Medical Applications
• Surgery – 3D displays, anatomical
structures identified
• Radiology
• Diagnosis
• Education

66. Into the Future
• Eric Topol’s Top Ten Targets for Wireless