We know that Gulf states were Health connected; albeit MENA protestation seems to be “revolutions 2.0″ owing to Le Monde. With 80 million inhabitants, Egypt has 24 million people connected to the Internet, nearly 5.45 million Facebook accounts, 300 000 Twitter accounts and 250 000 blogs. Information is widely relayed.
The initiators whom call for revolution have been overwhelmed by the power of their IT tools, before being surprised by the determination and courage of the Egyptian people.
While French Medical Share Record still stammers, is arab world ready for health 2.0 revolution?
mHealth provides with QTel new health services
The Peninsula announced last Saturday a contract between QTel and mHealth in order to provide health services in the MENA countries, including monitoring of chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity. As we said last week, forecasts predict an increase to 51.7 million diabetics by 2030. The Supreme Council of Health in Qatar announced in concertation with NTIC investors and companies the launch next June of a new smartphones application in order to locate doctors through mobiles and… rank them1 said The Peninsula. We wrote last October on SMS alerts system called Weaqaya in Abu Dhabi among diabetic patients.
What would be the next revolution? The Health 2.0?
- In France, the launch of such applications like GoogleMaps or Qype unleashed an outcry among French doctors. [↩]
