Interagency Working Group for mHealth

December 3, 2009

December 3 Agenda

•The mHealth Summit

•Next steps for the Working Group

•Knowledge management platform

•mHealth Data Collection Group

Next Steps for the Working Group•What and who are we?

•What are our goals?

•What are we doing?

•What are we producing?

What is the mHealth Working Group?

The Interagency Working Group for mHealth seeks to frame mobile technology within a larger global health strategy. By applying public health standards and practices to mHealth, we promote approaches that are appropriate, evidence-based, and scalable in resource-poor settings.

Defining Our Needs Before Reaching Out

Mobile Carriers

AggregatorsTelecom Ministries

Mobile Marketing

eHealth Organizations

Proprietary Developers

mHealth Startups

Open Source Developers

mBanking… mEverything

Public HealthOrganizations

The mHealth Universe

Defining Working Group Goals

1. Build Capacity

2. Encourage Collaboration

3. Knowledge Management

1. Build Capacity

•Develop the capacity to implement mHealth programs that are appropriate, effective, integrated and evidence-based

•Introduce mHealth Toolkit to provide guidance on program design, requirements and development processes

•Managing mHealth adoption in complex organizations

2. Encourage Collaboration

•Create opportunities for collaboration

•Interoperability (all kinds- IT, programmatic, organizational)

•Standardize demand among organizations to define the product for the mHealth market

3. Knowledge Management

•Discuss mHealth programs of members

•Communities of practice in the field

•Synthesize and frame available information

K4Health mHealth Toolkit

•Online collaboration

•Knowledge management

•Provide useful, accessible resources in mHealth

K4Health KM Model1. Engage Networks: Work with existing

networks and nurture communities of practice to collaborate on common topic of interest

2. Manage Content: Train networks and communities of practice to use collaborative publishing solutions to capture, organize, adapt and create knowledge

3. Deliver Knowledge: Use all appropriate channels including Web-based, mobile, radio, face-to-face, digital and print

4. Exchange Knowledge: Facilitate eForums and support eLearning programs on the Web and CD-ROM

First Technical Subgroup- mHealth for Data Collection

•Well developed area of mHealth

•Provides immediate/tangible gains

•More control over introduction/use of devices

•Technical group develops data collection section of mHealth toolkit

Current Events

•Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit -London, December 1-2

•Telecom Council of Silicon Valley, Mobile Forum: Mobile Health, December 9

•International mHealth Networking and Web Conference– Washington, DC, February 3-4

Interagency Working Group for mHealth

Kelly Keislingkkeislin@jhuccp.org