Converging Ideas at the 2011 mHealth Summit

Sometimes things just come together. We funded the first mHealth Summit because it was interesting and pioneering, and it seemed to have a connection to a few of our Project HealthDesign grants. Then came our involvement with and support of Quantified Self, Open mHealth, the Stanford Mobile Health 2011 conference and the mHealth Evidence meeting. Other programs, like our national program Health Games Research, Games for Health Conference and the Reality Mining meeting that we funded at MIT in 2009, also have strong mHealth associations.

This is more than just coincidence--rather, mHealth focuses on many of the qualities that make Pioneer “pioneering.” mHealth has the potential to radically change the way health and health care is delivered, it is inherently oriented to the individual, and it is an area not yet burdened with the organizational and bureaucratic complexities of traditional health care. mHealth is a place where something radical can happen.

It is therefore particularly gratifying to see that Pioneer will be well-represented at the 2011 mHealth Summit on December 5-7 in Washington, D.C., with grantees featured in sessions on Open mHealth, The Evolution of Gaming and its Effect on Prevention and Wellness, and Wireless Patient Monitoring in Care Facilities: The Future of Wearable mHealth Applications, Devices, and Sensors, and with a  Pioneer-sponsored session, What I Really Need from mHealth: Five Perspectives on Value. This session builds on a discussion that began in August at a Pioneer co-sponsored workshop on mHealth Evidence.

I hope that you’ll be able to join us at the conference, tweet me at @alshar using #mHS11,  and help frame what I’m sure will be a very important discussion.

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