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  • 8/3/2019 2012 Open mHealth Brief

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    Open mHealth is a project of the Tides Center, and is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Pioneer Portfolio and

    the California HealthCare Foundation.

    Open mHealth is a non-profit organization thats working to turn the dial on mobile health innovation toamplify health outcomes. By enabling a collaborative community of developers and health innovators,together were producing and sharing a free and open software architecture.

    Open mHealth actively engages with the developer community, academic institutions, health care innovators,tech startups, and open source advocates to help advance our mission and vision.

    Our first pilot use case is PTSD Coach, a mobile applicationcreated by the Veterans Administration National Center for Post-

    Traumatic Stress Disorder. Open mHealth software modules willsupport collection, analysis, and presentation of patient-generated datafor clinical PTSD care.

    Why mHealth?

    Mobile phones are proximate, personalized, and affordable.

    By empowering individuals to track and manage their own health,mHealth applications can:

    Collect and deliver information that is individually tailored; Enhance communication and coordination among patients,

    providers, and organizations;

    Reduce costs and improve user-centric care by reaching patientsin their daily lives; and

    Generate evidence to advance clinical science.Why openmHealth?The data streams generated by mHealth applications contributesimultaneously to three essential feedback loops: self-care, clinicalcare, and research evidence. The most significant bottleneck, however,

    for continued innovation is the slow evolution ofsensemakingtools techniques for extracting and evaluating data features and patterns

    which are needed to drive these feedback loops. In addition, existingsilos discourage the sharing of data and limit the rate and breadth of impact. OpeningmHealth will prevent theundesirable state of affairs seen in electronic health records where the absence of interoperability betweendifferent systems has greatly hindered data-driven clinical discovery and decision-making.

    Open mHealth aims to expand the power and coherence of mHealth interventions through the creation of auniform architecture that can support systematic sharing, analysis, and presentation of collected data as neverbefore. By creating an open community to generate rapid cycles of design, deployment, learning, sharing, andevidence generation, Open mHealth will increase the validity and efficiency of shared components andmethods.

    Learn how you can get involved at OpenmHealth.org.

    Open mHealth is led byDeborah Estrin, PhD, the Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks and the directorof the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA, and Ida Sim, MD, PhD, a professor of medicineand the director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics at UCSF. For further information,contact David Haddad, the program manager, at [email protected] visitwww.OpenmHealth.org.

    The numbers

    43% of U.S. mobile phonesubscribers own a smartphone(Nielsen's third-quarter survey 11 ofmobile users).

    > 10,000 health-related applicationsare currently available for downloadto smartphones (Apple).

    14% of smartphone users will use amobile health app in 2011 (IDC).

    Published studies show improvedclinical outcomes (i.e. reduction inblood sugar levels among diabetespatients) using mHealth apps(Diabetes Care, 2011).

    By 2014, the market for mobilehealth care apps is estimated to reach$1.7B (Chilmark Research) with$4.5B spent on wireless health care(In-Stat).

    Underserved populations are usingmobile technologies; 80% of

    Medicaid patients text regularly(PWC).