by Holly Shoemaker
Former President Bill Clinton announced this week, the Clinton
Health Matters Initiative, a partnership with General Electric (GE),
Tenet Healthcare and Verizon Communications to promote healthy lifestyles and
medical assistance to undeserved areas in the United States.
The Clinton Health Matters Initiative is designed to address “global health
crises and the childhood obesity epidemic,” according to Clinton. It works by
putting systems into place to support medical professionals and those in need
of healthcare outreach.
Verizon provides the technology component. The company will support wireless
networks and other technologies for patients. In particular, the company
supports a technology that allows patients to take their vital signs at home
and send them to their physicians. Doctors will also have the ability to assist
patients with chronic diseases. Verizon has a system in place to notify doctors
when patients suffering from a chronic disease need medical help. Rural areas
will also receive needed connectivity to bring specialist expertise to them.
The foundation will start its work in California’s Coachella Valley and
target forgotten desert communications and in greater Little Rock, Ark, which
comes as no surprise. From there, the project will expand.
Concluding Thoughts
The initiative is an extension of telemedicine. Without telemedicine, we would not be discussing how
medical mobile apps, smartphones and tablets work together to change
healthcare. These tools, along with video conferencing, allow underprivileged
people and those without insurance access to specialists they would not have.
The Clinton Health Matters Initiative supports the expansion of telemedicine
and shows developers ways to keep expanding the field.
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