How do you define mobile health? Is it still emerging? And how broad is its scope? Does it include wireless sensors?

These questions are part of a debate that has played out on the 3G Doctor blog, according to FierceMobileHealthcare Editor Neil Versel. Several months ago, David Doherty, head of business development at the Ireland-based mobile healthcare software vendor 3G Doctor, took a stab at defining the field.

He took issue with a Wikipedia entry that cites the work of Robert Istepanian, a professor of data communications at Kingston University in London, who defined m-health as "emerging mobile communications and network technologies for healthcare." The entry, at least as it read six months ago, also mentioned "embedded wireless devices that track health-related parameters," Versel writes. FierceMobileHealthcare