Open mHealth
Monday, December 5, 2011, 4:30–5:30 PM
Overview: Mobile phones offer affordable, proximate, personalized, and continuous measurement and interaction, helping support chronic disease prevention and management as part of daily life.
Data generated by mHealth applications contribute simultaneously to three essential feedback loops for improving health outcomes by enabling participant self-care, facilitating clinical management, and advancing research knowledge.
Despite the immense potential and promise of mHealth technologies, the current lack of “sense-making” techniques and evidence/methods for extracting and evaluating mHealth data poses a significant innovation bottleneck.
Openmhealth.org aims to develop and disseminate an open architecture for mHealth applications to improve individual and public health outcomes. By enabling connections between developers and health innovators, Open mHealth can build community, robust system and software components that can be easily reused across product deployments, disease conditions, and user populations.
Widespread adoption of Open mHealth modules will bring rigor and “sense” to the mHealth ecosytem, defining a personal evidence architecture for agile learning of both individual evidence (i.e., what works for me?) as well as population-level evidence (i.e., what works for people like me?).
A dynamic and lean mHealth ecosystem will reduce the friction for innovators and entrepreneurs to focus on their unique market offerings, while increasing the validity and efficiency of shared components and methods.
Fee: None
Presenters:
- Deborah Estrin, Co-Founder, openmhealth.org
- Ida Sim, Co-Founder, openmhealth.org
- David Haddad, Program Manager, openmhealth.org
