Dates of Project: September 2011 through December 2015
Description: The development of mobile health (mHealth) applications (or apps) for smartphones and wearable electronic devices has created vast amounts of personal health data that could be of tremendous value to physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals. To date, however, fragmentation of the mHealth ecosystem and its lack of data standards has prevented its rich potential from being realized.
Beginning in September of 2011, a team of computer and clinical professionals worked to establish a nonprofit consortium called Open mHealth aimed at developing a set of open source software architecture that could integrate data from a wide variety of mHealth sources and translate that data into a cohesive, useful form for health care providers.