{"id":2063,"date":"2009-04-20T22:02:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T05:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2009-04-20T22:02:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T05:02:46","slug":"may-27-cyrus-to-moderate-session-at-global-health-conference-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/may-27-cyrus-to-moderate-session-at-global-health-conference-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"May 27: Cyrus to moderate a session at Global Health Conference (DC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalhealth.org\/conference_2009\/view_top.php3?id=965\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalhealth.org\/images\/conf2009\/nav_09_top.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\"\/><\/a>I&#8217;ll be moderating this session on May 27 at the Global Health Conference in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalhealth.org\/conference_2009\/view_top.php3?id=965\">Transformations: Discovering New Strategies Using Proven Technologies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9-10:30 am<\/p>\n<p>The technology evolution is sparking a health-care revolution. The rapid adoption of mobile technology throughout the world, with more than 4 billion mobile phones alone, has resulted in a leapfrogging over the digital divide. Those in remote and resource-poor settings, without the infrastructure to support wired technology, now have the same access to information and communications as those on the other side of the divide. The potential to transform the way we work, teach, learn and connect, one-to-one or one-to-many, is enormous. In the global health field, mHealth \u2013 the use of mobile devices to gather health data and to increase access to and dissemination of health information and services \u2013 has just begun to tap into this potential. In this session, we\u2019ll explore the concept of technology transformation \u2013 adapting available technology to solve problems \u2013 and highlight the adaption and adoption of mHealth solutions throughout the world. <\/p>\n<p>The speakers will be: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxiva.com\/management.php#top\">Paul Meyer<\/a>, JD<br \/>\nCo-founder, Chairman &#038; President<br \/>\nVoxiva<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobileactive.org\/KatrinVerclas\">Katrin Verclas<\/a><br \/>\nCo-founder &#038; Editor<br \/>\nMobileActive.org<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zpluspartners.com\/about5.html\">Andrew Zolli<\/a><br \/>\nCurator<br \/>\nPop!Tech Conference<br \/>\nFellow<br \/>\nNational Geographic Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be moderating this session on May 27 at the Global Health Conference in Washington, D.C. Transformations: Discovering New Strategies Using Proven Technologies 9-10:30 am The technology evolution is sparking a health-care revolution. The rapid adoption of mobile technology throughout the world, with more than 4 billion mobile phones alone, has resulted in a leapfrogging over the digital divide. Those in remote and resource-poor settings, without the infrastructure to support wired technology, now have the same access to information and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-conferences","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}