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Open mHealth
Cell phone apps are becoming increasingly important for getting our news, staying organized, and even becoming healthier. Every day, more apps are created for finding health information, and tracking and sharing health data with our health care providers. These mobile health (mHealth) apps are becoming more popular—with one in five smartphone users now having a health app, according to Pew Internet. However, many of these apps are not built in an open-source way that allows easier data-sharing across platforms or collects data as useful guides for action for patients and providers, such as allowing physicians to track a patient’s symptoms between appointments.
To break down barriers between health and technology, RWJF’s Pioneer Portfolio supports Open mHealth, a nonprofit that aims to make use of mobile health data by building a free open-source platform. This approach will help developers create apps that patients, providers, and researchers can use to collect, analyze, and share health data. Through this open approach, mHealth will be able to reach its full potential sooner.
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Open mHealth
Deborah Estrin
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Ida Sim
Project Director
An Open Architecture to Improve Individual- and Population-Level Health
Open approaches have accelerated innovation in many fields—including the creation of the Internet—and can similarly advance the mHealth field. By fostering an open architecture and encouraging developers and health innovators to collaborate, Open mHealth is promoting industry-wide cooperation and growth, rather than siloed technologies and competition, to create more effective mHealth apps.
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Open mHealth is headed to the mHealth Summit!
Pioneer grantee Open mHealth has announced their attendance at the 2012 mHealth Summit. While attending, Open mHealth plans on exhibiting their power of integration using open architecture across two different disease domains: type 1 diabetes and post-traumatic stress disorder. Open mHealth has partnered with many individuals and organizations to reach a new level of collaboration in mHealth.
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Open mHealth: Making Sense of Mobile Health Data
In preparation for next week’s 2012 mHealth Summit, Open mHealth program manager David Haddad answers a few questions about the innovative, open architecture of Open mHealth and how it is transforming health care. Open mHealth prides itself on the sharing of ideas that will lead to the exponential and rapid growth and development of apps and data that will expand the effectiveness of mHealth.
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