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mHealth Summit: Health Gets Mobile

mHealth Summit: A Summit on Mobile Technologies as a Platform for Health Research and Healthcare Delivery

October 29-30, 2009, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC

From Reuters:

2009 Inaugural mHealth Summit Brings Together Health, Technology and Policy Communities to Advance Technological Innovation in Global Healthcare

From the event website:

The mHealth Summit, a public-private partnership of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, will focus on mobile technologies as a platform for health research and healthcare delivery.

• Information on the agenda, presentations, and accomodations

About the mHealth Summit

The two-day event will explore the role of biomedical research as the driver for the development of compelling applications based on mobile technology. The Summit will bring together 450 to 600 U.S. and international researchers, technology experts, and policymakers in the public sector, as well as those from academia, industry, and NGOs to:

• Assess current policies regarding mobile health technologies and their use in reducing or eliminating domestic and global health disparities
• Build bridges between the scientific community and mobile technology developers to identify mHealth solutions
• Highlight scientific opportunities and challenges in using mobile technologies to improve public health
• Discuss and craft a vision for the development and use of mobile technologies in the future

The agenda will include several case study tracks, as well as panel discussions that address broad themes related to mobile technologies as tools for research and improving health. The mHealth Summit program committee has announced a call for presentations and is seeking case studies that describe current or completed research projects using mobile technologies to improve research data collection, healthcare delivery, health outcomes, and/or health and science education. All NIH Institutes and Centers are strongly urged to encourage researchers from their intramural and extramural communities to submit presentation abstracts.

Current partnering Institutes and Centers include:

• Fogarty International Center (FIC)
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
• National Center on Research Resources (NCRR)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Sponsors

The mHealth Summit is sponsored by FNIH in partnership with the NIH, the U.S. State Department, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, and the World Bank. Supporting industry members are Microsoft Research, the Abbott Fund, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer, Inc.

The U.S. NIH (National Institutes of Health) provides additional information on each day’s sessions, and a link to a live RealVideo stream, as well. The free RealMedia player is required to view this stream.

View the mHealth Summit live video stream (Runtime 570 minutes)

From NIH’s website:

Summit Mission
The mission of the mHealth Summit is to explore the use of mobile technologies to improve public health, particularly regarding underserved populations; health research, training, and education applications; and delivery systems, in the U.S. and around the world.

Summit Overview
Mobile technologies have the potential to transform global health care on many fronts, from research and diagnostics to training and preventative interventions. Targeting experts from such diverse fields as medical research, software design, clinical health care, hardware manufacture and network transmission, the summit hopes to spur development and deployment of innovative, practical, affordable and effective solutions to health challenges in underserved and resource-poor populations.
In addition to reviewing current tools and research from a wide spectrum of stakeholders, the summit will foster inter-disciplinary collaboration that could identify entirely new opportunities that team existing mobile-industry companies with emerging public health facilitators.

Summit Goals

Start time: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:00 AM EDT (-0400)

In addition, you can follow (and contribute) on Twitter to the live tweetstream for the Mobile Health Summit Both both days via the #mhs09 hashtag.

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Flu 2.0: The 2009 Influenza Preparedness Summit

The  H1N1 Influenza Preparedness Summit scheduled for Thursday, July 9th is shaping up to be an important milestone in  the use of  rich media and interactive web technologies by the U.S. government’s primary health and research agencies.

The all-day summit is a combined, multi-agency, multi-lingual effort to raise awareness of prevention, preparedness and response. This comes on the heels of the WHO’s designation of the worldwide H1N1 pandemic alert as phase 5/6, signaling the need for response and mitigation efforts.

I’m fortunate to have learned about the event at the recent Crisis Camp DC event from Andrew P. Wilson, HHS’ multi-talented social media go-to guy, and in-house Government 2.0 innovator. HHS and its sister agencies, including CDC and NIH are making a remarkably rich and diverse set of Web-based tools available to international public health stakeholders at all levels, as well as the general public. (More on this in an upcoming post.)

From the the official Obama Administration press release on the Flu Summit event:

WASHINGTON-The White House today announced that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan will host an all-day H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit with states to further prepare this nation for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of H1N1 flu.  The Summit will be held on July 9, 2009 at the Natcher Conference Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

WHO:	Kathleen Sebelius, HHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, DHS Secretary Arne Duncan, Education Secretary John Brennan, National Security Advisor
WHAT:	H1NI Flu Preparedness Summit
WHEN:	Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 8:30 a.m.
WHERE:	Natcher Conference Center Auditorium (Bldg. 45) National Institutes of Health 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Md. 20892Online: Summit agenda

Flu Summit 2009: The Videos

New – Just Added: Watch the recorded plenary sessions of the Flu Summit below.  You can also follow @FluGov on Twitter.

Opening Remarks Secretaries Kathleen Sebelius (HHS), Janet Napolitano (DHS), and Arne Duncan (ED) and President Obama give their remarks after Dr. Howard Koh, HHS Assistant Secretary for Health, welcomes all to the event. Introductory presentations are given by leaders from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Homeland Security. Governors also ask questions to the Secretaries.

School Preparedness Panel Discussion Objectives: Discuss the effects of temporary school closures on the education sector and the community at large and the importance of careful planning. Discuss lessons learned from the spring H1N1 outbreak, including challenges and opportunities for enhancing state and local preparedness for temporary school closures. Identify important components of education sector preparedness, including understanding legal authorities, options for continuing education in the context of school closures, the role of day care centers and universities, and protecting the health and safety of students and staff. Identify mechanisms for communicating at various levels – including between schools, families, and staff; between local educational agencies and states; and between states and the federal government – about H1N1.

Lessons Learned from States, Tribes, & Localities Panel Discussion Objectives: Discuss common challenges posed and gaps revealed by the ongoing H1N1 public health challenge. Describe novel strategies employed to both respond to H1N1 and mitigate the impact of recommended response measures. Identify opportunities to improve the readiness of state governments to respond in the fall.

Vaccines & Antiviral Use & Distribution Panel Discussion Objectives: Relative to the U.S. government H1N1 vaccine strategy and the distribution and use of antiviral drugs: Review planning assumptions for a vaccination campaign this fall; Describe the process for making recommendations about the use of vaccine and antiviral drugs; Identify ways to monitor and ensure equitable distribution of vaccine and antiviral drugs; Identify ways to improve decision-making, strategies, tactics, and tools related to vaccine and antiviral use and distribution; and Identify information and decision needs that the Federal government can help address.

Continuity Planning & Worker Protection Panel Discussion Objectives: Discuss strategies to keep critical public and private services operating during an H1N1 outbreak. Identify and discuss the key elements of a successful H1N1 continuity-of- operations plan. Provide continuity resources for planning assistance. Provide information on workforce protection.

Public & Private Sector Roles Panel Discussion Objectives Describe the role of state and local officials in private sector readiness for H1N1. Describe how state and local officials can effectively communicate with business communities and help them prepare for community mitigation activities including promoting permissive workplace policies (e.g. if you are sick, stay home) and mitigate the impact of school closures on their businesses. Identify what actions Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) and private sector organizations should take now to ensure continuity of their sectors and organizations this fall. Broadly describe how the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Regional Coordination Team framework will support states, local communities and the private sector during the response to H1N1.

Community Mitigation Measures Panel Discussion Objectives: Describe the recent implementation and lessons learned of community mitigation measures (including school closings) that are intended to slow or prevent the transmission of H1N1. Discuss how these measures have and will continue to impact specific groups, including businesses, universities, and child care providers. Discuss specific actions that state and local officials can take to help communities implement these measures and mitigate their impact. Discuss ways to eliminate barriers and align incentives for compliance with community public health measures that may be recommended in the fall.

Medical Surge & Health System Capacity Panel Discussion Objectives: Discuss the challenges to the medical care system during the spring H1N1 outbreak. Discuss the anticipated medical surge challenges and gaps, as well as possible solutions, related to the return of a potential more clinically severe H1N1 outbreak. Identify information requirements for hospitals, outpatient healthcare providers, the EMS community, long-term care facilities and physicians’ offices and clinics responding to H1N1.

Risk Communication Panel Discussion & the Summit’s Closing Statements Objectives: Present and highlight the key principles of risk communications. Demonstrate how the principles of risk communications were used during the Spring 2009 H1N1 outbreak. Encourage state leaders to receive training in crisis and risk communications so they can effectively disseminate critical public health information during the upcoming vaccination campaign and flu season. Dr. Howard Koh welcomes the closing remarks by HHS Secretary Sebelius at the 29 minute mark of this clip.

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