Interagency Working Group for mHealth December 3, 2009.

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Interagency Working Group for mHealth December 3, 2009

Transcript of Interagency Working Group for mHealth December 3, 2009.

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Interagency Working Group for mHealth

December 3, 2009

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December 3 Agenda

•The mHealth Summit

•Next steps for the Working Group

•Knowledge management platform

•mHealth Data Collection Group

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

•What are our goals?

•What are we doing?

•What are we producing?

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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.

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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

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Defining Working Group Goals

1. Build Capacity

2. Encourage Collaboration

3. Knowledge Management

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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

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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

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3. Knowledge Management

•Discuss mHealth programs of members

•Communities of practice in the field

•Synthesize and frame available information

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K4Health mHealth Toolkit

•Online collaboration

•Knowledge management

•Provide useful, accessible resources in mHealth

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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

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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

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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

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Interagency Working Group for mHealth

Kelly [email protected]