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The mHealth Working Group December 13, 2010 Held at FHI. How ICT and Health Partner in mHealth. Partnering in mHealth. Partnering- selection, structure, and maintenance Design- method, role for each partner Guest Presentations - Hajo van Beijma, Text to Change, Kelly L’Engle, FHI
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The mHealth Working Group December 13, 2010 Held at FHI
Partnering in mHealth • Partnering- selection, structure, and maintenance • Design- method, role for each partner • Guest Presentations • - Hajo van Beijma, Text to Change, Kelly L’Engle, FHI • - Steve Ollis, D-Tree International • - Merrick Schaefer, UNICEF’s Project Mwana Participant Comments
Partnering - Possible Considerations • Where each partner begins in process • Flexible or defined structure of service and output • IT support provided/needed • Roles in quality control • Differing vocabularies, procedures, cultures, sizes • Government policies or funder requirements • Sustainability of the partnership and project • Ownership of content, data, platform, IP Participant Comments
Review of the mHealth Summit November 8-10, 2010 Washington, DC
2010 mHealth Summit Highlights • Organized by the FNIH, NIH, mHealth Alliance • 2,400 attendees from over 50 different countries • Keynote speeches from Bill Gates and Ted Turner • 150 speakers,125 exhibiting companies, 185 posters • 2011 mHealth Summit: December 5 -7 Participant Comments
2010 mHealth Summit Highlights • “Pilotitis” • It is not about the technology • Develop business models • Mobile money for mHealth • Interdisciplinary collaboration • - health, ICT, private sector, government Participant Comments
Top 10 Lessons Learned in mHealth 10: Unpack pathways to mobile behavior change. 9: More locally generated content. 8: Need research on health outcomes. 7: Be realistic about costs, HR, changing technology. 6: Participatory design processes. 5: “Systems thinking” approach. 4: Collaborating is more fun than competing. 3: Recycle, re-use, repurpose. 2: Need government and private sector. 1: It is not about technology. Patty Mechael, Columbia Univesity, and Holly Ladd, AED SatelLife, http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/11/15/mhealth-summit/ Participant Comments
The mHealth Working Group • Collaborative forum for sharing and synthesizing • knowledge on evolving field of mHealth • Over 70 participating organizations from the US, • Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America • Monthly meetings since August of 2009 • Guest presentations, functional area discussions, • draft materials, technical groups, networking
Thanks for Your Consideration of mHealth Kelly Keisling kkeislin@jhuccp.org Laura Raney lraney@fhi.org Listserv of the mHealth Working Group: http://my.ibpinitiative.org/mhealth mHealth Toolkit: www.k4health.org/toolkits/mhealth
Principles of the Working Group • Frame mHealth within global health strategies • Apply public health standards and practices • Emphasize appropriate, evidence-based, scalable and • interoperable approaches in resource-poor settings • Build capacity of implementing agencies and for • research utilization