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Transcript of Interagency Working Group for mHealth February 24, 2010.
Interagency Working Group for mHealth
February 24, 2010
Focus of the Working Group•Frame mHealth within global health strategy
•Apply public health standards and practices
•Emphasize appropriate, evidence-based, and scalable approaches in resource-poor settings
•Build capacity of implementing agencies
February 24th Agenda
•Review Health Affairs meeting
•Introduce mHealth Alliance
•Review mHealth Initiative conference
•Discuss Mobile Data Collection Guide
•Next meeting- April 6, 2010
Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/E-Health in Developing
Countries
E-Health in Developing Countries
Curioso, Universidad Peruana•Privacy, not track names
•South-South, South-North (Text4baby)
E-Health in Developing CountriesJaffe, Health Level 7:•Interoperability = share and reuse data
without loss or ambiguity. Maintain meaning for human and computer.
•Challenges: legacy technology, privacy and security, data w/o context degrades information.
E-Health in Developing CountriesHersh, Oregon Health & Science University•Building human capacity in informatics•Focus on information, not technology•Workflow, organizational and cultural
context, •Informatics professionalism, certificates
Introduction to the mHealth Alliance
Peggy D'Adamo, USAID
mHealth InitiativeInternational Networking Conference
February 3-4, 2010Washington, DC
mHealth International Networking Conference•1st conference organized by mHealth
Initiative (http://www.mobih.org/) •300 participants, including IT companies
& developers •Heavy focus on smart phones, esp. IPhone
and IPad•Heavy focus on the IT side of mHealth
1st Day Highlights
•Sybase – http://www.sybase.comUsing sms for:▫Medication reminders▫Health alerts
•Ramsell Technologies -http://www.ramselltechnologies.com/Tele-adherence systems▫Tailored messages for diabetes patients
2nd Day Breakout Sessions
•Using portable devices (flash drive/smart card) as electronic medical records
•Using mobile/wireless technology to promote behavior change and for prevention
•Creative use of mobile/wireless technology by health workers
What do providers want?
•Bedside tools•Voice activated tools•Wireless tools
What changes behavior in the medical profession?•Being more efficient•Being more effective•Involving providers (especially nurses) in
design and implementation•Involving patients in design
mHealth @ CDC •Health promotion texting pilot program•Text for Baby•DOTs pilot with Danya/Kenya •YouTube Videos•Facebook•Twitter•Email updates, widgets, content
syndication
2nd Day Highlights•Keas
▫Started by Adam Bosworth (Google Health)▫Online personal care plans
First Technical Subgroup- Mobile Data Collection Guide
•Popular area of mHealth
•Provide direct and internal advantages
•Control over introduction and use of mHealth
•Especially interviewer-assisted surveys
Potential Advantages
•Reduced error of data •Reduced loss of data
•Faster data collection
•Reduced cost
Reduced Error of Data
•Electronic format, automated checks and controls, faster data editing by supervisor
•Internal consistency
•Social desirability bias
•Quantitative versus qualitative
Reduced Loss of Data
•Reports lost in transfer or storage
•Learning curve?
•Option of paper backup (offset advantages?)
Faster Data Collection
•Electronic format, transmission speed, skip duplicate data entry, easier data editing
•Faster at which step, for which user?
•Additional training time
Reduced Costs
•High initial costs: equipment, any programming
•Reduced variable cost: data entry
•Multiple uses to spread costs
Discuss Mobile Data Collection
•Error, speed, data error and loss
•Resource requirements
•Design considerations
•Useful information sources
•Your M&E colleagues
Next Steps
•Revise and update Mobile Data Collection Guide
•Provide Guide and sources in online format for review and discussion
•Plan next mHealth areas for next meeting
Interagency Working Group for mHealth Integration
Kelly [email protected]