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Last week's WLSA Convergence Summit put the spotlight on the global digital health ecosystem - including Dean Kamen's efforts to "do something really big for the world."

The Verizon Foundation, Swinfen Charitable Trust and the University of Virginia Health System announced Thursday the expansion of an innovative telemedicine program into rural communities in India and the Philippines.

The project, spearheaded by Open mHealth, seeks to create a platform on which mHealth projects can be launched using multiple apps.

The ONC, FDA and Federal Communications Commission are seeking broad input from the healthcare and information technology industries on how the federal government should regulate health IT and mobile health technology in particular.

A panel of venture capital experts at the WLSA's Convergence Summit in San Diego agrees that mHealth entrepreneurs need to look beyond the device to gain traction in the market.