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mHealth Working Group

mHealth Working Group. July 13, 2010. Thanks to Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Participant Introductions. July 13 th Agenda. Current Events mHealth Toolkit: Introducing Planning Process Presentations on Planning Processes Applying the Innovation Cycle to Mobile Health

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mHealth Working Group

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  1. mHealth Working Group July 13, 2010

  2. Thanks to Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Participant Introductions

  3. July 13th Agenda • Current Events • mHealth Toolkit: Introducing Planning Process • Presentations on Planning Processes • Applying the Innovation Cycle to Mobile Health • Capturing mHealth Requirements • ICT for Education and Training • Renaming the Working Group

  4. mHealth Events Recent • NYC Mobile Tech Salon: Mobile Sensing • ICT for Development, Education, Training • eLearning Guild: mLearnCon • USAID/PHI: mHealth Design and Planning Pending • m4D2010, Kampala, abstracts due July 15 • mHealth Summit, DC, abstracts due July 16 • mHealth Global Conference, Dubai, Sept. 13-15

  5. Events Sites and Materials onmHealth Toolkit

  6. The mHealth Toolkit • Reach beyond beltway to field • Synthesize and streamline growing information • Support objective standards: evidence-based, appropriate, scalable, sustainable • Shift from discussion to practices & planning Now openly available at: http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/mhealth

  7. Group Comments on Toolkit • Instructions for newcomers • Typology/examples of problems addressed • Emphasize program planning, adoption steps • What works and does not work, and what mHealth needs to work • Detail on functional areas vs. start w/ health areas • Not “chase” rapidly evolving technology • Link with other toolkits, sites, CoP

  8. Planning Process Needed for Toolkit (and mHealth Overall) Add section on problems addressed by mHealth, and planning process for adoption.

  9. Importance of Planning Process Reduce or offset mHealth limitations- Indecision Shortcuts Lack of Evidence

  10. Initial Planning Process Toolkit= Examples Planning Considerations (evidence, lessons, questions) Formative Concept Requirements Research Devt. Definition *Generic development process graphic from Google images = Today’s Speakers

  11. Presentation Applying the Innovation Cycle to mHealth: Understand, Develop and Enhance Dr. Aditya Dev Sood Center for Knowledge Societies aditya@cks.in

  12. Presentation Capturing mHealth Requirements: A Worksheet to Guide the Process Janice Cunningham, AIDP janicecunningham@mac.com

  13. Renaming the Working Group What’s in a name: • Public health standards, strategies and practices • Appropriate, evidence-based, scalable and sustainable • Global knowledge sharing • Program managers, funders, policy makers, including new adopters … and pithy

  14. From “Interagency Working Group for mHealth” to… • International mHealth Working Group • mHealth Forum • Global mHealth, Public mHealth • mHealth Practices • Strategic mHealth • ____________ • ____________ • ____________

  15. mLearning 5th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training Zambia, May 26-28, 2010 http://www.elearning-africa.com/ James BonTempo, Jhpiego

  16. Next Steps • Assemble resources on mHealth planning process • New functional area and technical group: • Health Management Information Systems

  17. mHealth Working Group Kelly Keisling kkeislin@jhuccp.org

  18. Principles of the Working Group • Frame mHealth within global health strategy • Apply public health standards and practices • Emphasize appropriate, evidence-based, scalable and sustainable approaches in resource-poor settings • Build capacity of implementing agencies

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