Mobile health (mHealth) has the potential to simultaneously reduce the cost of health care and improve our health by encouraging healthy behaviors, providing continuous monitoring to prevent or reduce health problems, reducing acute health care visits, and providing personalized, real-time intervention in the mobile environment. However, traditional methods of evaluation needed to address efficacy and safety in mHealth are not well aligned to the pace of technological development. The mHealth Evidence Meeting will bring together individuals with diverse expertise in data analysis and experimental design to identify innovative methods that can accelerate the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of mHealth technologies. Results from the workshop will be used to define the research agenda for evaluation of mobile health technology.

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More information on this workshop can be found at: http://obssr.od.nih.gov/scientific_areas/methodology/mhealth/mhealth-workshop.aspx

The 2011 mHealth Evidence meeting is brought to you by a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, McKesson Foundation, National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

mHealth Evidence Workshop Agenda

 8:30 – 8:50           Opening Remarks

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, McKesson Foundation, National Science Foundation & National Institutes of Health

8:50 – 9:00           Introduction of Purpose and Goals

Santosh Kumar, PhD – University of Memphis

9:00 – 10:30         Study Design Innovations I

Don Hedeker, PhD;  Professor of Biostatistics – University of Chicago

Moderator: Tisha Wiley, PhD – NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Additional white paper authors: Sara Browne, MD; Thomas Kirchner, PhD; Marc Lara, MD

10:30 – 10:45      Break

10:45 – 12:15      Study Design Innovations II

Linda Collins, PhD; Professor Human Development & Family Studies and Biostatistics – Penn State University

Moderator: Bill Riley, PhD – NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Additional white paper authors: Inbal Nahum-Shani, PhD; Dallas Swendeman, PhD

12:15 – 12:30      Break and Lunch

12:30 – 2:00         Reality Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Amy Abernethy, MD;  Associate Professor of Medicine -- Duke University  

Moderator: Audie Atienza, PhD – Health and Human Services

Additional white paper authors: Richard Katz, MD

2:00 – 3:30           Infrastructure Innovations

Deborah Estrin, PhD; Professor of Computer Science – University of California, Los Angeles  

                                                Moderator: Misha Pavel, PhD – National Science Foundation

Additional white paper authors: Janet Brigham, PhD; Stephen Intille, PhD;  Charlene Quinn, PhD; Ida Sim, MD;  

Donna Spruijt-Metz, PhD

3:30 – 3:45           Break

3:45 – 5:00           Discussion to Generate Research Agenda

Al Shar, PhD – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & Panel Leads             

5:00 – 5:15           Concluding Comments and Next Steps

Santosh Kumar, PhD – University of Memphis

5:15 – 6:30           Post-meeting reception