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Fordcastle LLC is company that is building new growth businesses in the MobileHealth and Longevity sectors. 

Our services range from trends-focused strategy creation and product concepting through to more operational activities such as business development new venture incubation. 

Our clients are mostly large multinationals who prioritize a flexible, multi-disciplined and collaborative approach to solving their growth challenges. 

We are headquartered in Soho, but have developed a global Network of experts, and work as part of larger teams with The Growth Agenda and Lodestar networks.

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Wednesday
Sep142011

Economist article on mHealth - it's getting real

I had missed this when it came out in November last year. Mentions some of the companies I'm now familiar with - Dalberg Advisors, Weltel (not named, but it was their SMS HIV study that was the first data point) and Welldoc. I've been working in the mobile space for almost ten years, yet I've never heard the pun "M-powered" until now. Thanks to the folks at St. James.  

Quoting Bill Gates, they agree that the next wave of innovation is going to come not from the west, but from developing countries.  

Wireless health care: M-powered | The Economist:

No doubt a dose of scepticism is warranted about m-health. But given the growing evidence of its usefulness and the new business models from emerging markets, there is reason for hope too. As Mr Gates pointed out this week, ?Middle-income countries are where most innovation in health care is going to come from.?