mHealth Working Group

July 13, 2010

Thanks to Association of Reproductive Health

Professionals

Participant Introductions

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

mHealth Events

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

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Events Sites and Materials onmHealth Toolkit

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

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

Planning Process Needed for Toolkit (and mHealth Overall)

Add section on problems addressed by mHealth, and planning process foradoption.

Importance of Planning Process

Reduce or offset mHealth limitations-

Indecision Shortcuts Lack of Evidence

Initial Planning ProcessToolkit= Examples Planning Considerations (evidence, lessons, questions)

Formative Concept Requirements Research Devt. Definition

*Generic development process graphic from Google images

= Today’s Speakers

Presentation

Applying the Innovation Cycle to mHealth: Understand, Develop and

Enhance

Dr. Aditya Dev Sood Center for Knowledge Societies

aditya@cks.in

Presentation

Capturing mHealth Requirements: A Worksheet to Guide the Process

   Janice Cunningham, AIDP

janicecunningham@mac.com

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

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

mLearning

5th International Conference on ICT

for Development, Education and Training

Zambia, May 26-28, 2010

http://www.elearning-africa.com/

James BonTempo, Jhpiego

Next Steps

•Assemble resources on mHealth planning process

•New functional area and technical group:▫Health Management Information Systems

mHealth Working Group

Kelly Keislingkkeislin@jhuccp.org

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