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Dr Phillip Olla is the endowed Phillips Chair of Management and Professor of MIS at the school of business at Madonna University in Michigan USA. His research interests include Mobile Health, Space research, Mobile telecommunication, and health informatics. In addition to University level teaching, Dr. Phillip Olla is also a Chartered Engineer and has over 15 years experience as an independent Consultant and has worked in the telecommunications, space, financial and healthcare sectors. He was contracted to perform a variety of roles including Chief Technical Architect, Program Manager, Solutions Designer and Director. Dr Olla has also participated in various activities to define procedures for sharing and maintaining knowledge generated from space activities between member Space agencies in conjunction with an international group that contained members from CNES, NASA, ESA, and ISRO. He has also worked on workshops and steering committees for the UN and OECD. Dr Olla has also worked on a wide variety of pioneering and innovative European telecoms projects in conjunction with mobile network operators and mobile service providers including British Telecom, Hutcinson 3G, T-Mobile and IBM Global Services. Dr Olla is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Information Technology Research and the Editor Board for the International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, Phillip is also a member of the Editorial Advisory & Review Board for the Journal of Knowledge Management Practice. Dr. Phillip Olla has a PhD in Mobile Telecommunications from Brunel University in the UK, he is an accredited Press member of the British Association of Journalism and a Chartered IT Professional with the British Computing Society, and he has published numerous peer reviewed articles along with 3 books.

The use of mobile technology in healthcare is on the increase, there is a steady shift towards acceptance of health care applications targeted to mobiles. Currently healthcare systems around the globe are experiencing a multitude of challenges, in addition the obvious problem of cost of providing healthcare, there are also other challenges such [...]

The concept of an Open Mobile Internet (OMI) means different things to different people depending on their viewpoint and specialty; however the end result is still the same. The aim of the various Open Mobile Internet initiatives is to open up the restricted mobile industry value chain to create a ‘fixed-Internet’ style ecosystem to replace [...]