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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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FCC Workshop: Public Safety and Homeland Security

From the Official  FCC event website:

The goal of this workshop is to examine existing and potential uses of broadband technology by public safety entities and ways in which broadband technology can enhance homeland security. The workshop will bring together representatives from the public safety community, government agencies, industry, and academia to discuss interoperability, redundancy, cyber security, 911, and pandemic response, among other issues.

The first panel will focus on use of broadband applications by first responders to communicate emergency information and to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies. This panel will also explore issues relating to interoperability, redundancy, and the cost of providing broadband access to public safety. The second panel will focus on the impact of broadband technology on particular homeland security issues, such as cyber security, pandemics, bioterrorism, and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. The panel will also examine current and future public safety use of managed IP-networks.

Topics

The following are some of the preliminary topics that will be covered at this workshop. If you would like to discuss any other topics, please send us your suggestions.

1. Interoperability
2. Public safety use of high-speed connectivity, the Internet and associated applications
3. Redundancy
4. Cost-efficiencies and practical issues
5. Cyber security and critical infrastructure
6. Pandemic/bioterrorism events
7. Coordination with other federal agencies and state and local governments
8. Pre-planning/Reliability

Agenda

9:00 am	Welcoming Remarks, James A. Barnett, Jr., Rear Admiral (Ret.), Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
9:15 am	Panel 1 – First Responders Using Broadband Technologies to Advance Public Safety Moderator, Jennifer A. Manner, Deputy Bureau Chief, PSHSB This panel will examine how the National Broadband Plan (NBP) should reflect the current and potential uses of broadband to improve public safety communications and operations, including the utilization of the Internet and web-based applications. The panel will also examine issues that impact broadband deployment and/or technologies in the public safety arena, such as interoperability and cost and infrastructure limitations. Panelists: Charles Brennan, Deputy Secretary, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Office of Public Safety Radio Service (OPSR) Stephen Carter, Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm Pete Eggimann, Chair, Operations Committee, National Emergency Number Association/ Director, 9-1-1 Services Metropolitan Emergency Services Board, St. Paul, MN; NG911 Trial Participant/ (Representing NENA and NG 911 Pilot Participant) Ralph Haller, Chair, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) Glenn Katz, President and Chief Operating Officer, Spacenet, Inc. Harlin McEwen, Chair, Public Safety Spectrum Trust Bill Schrier, Chief Technology Officer & Director of Information Technology, City of Seattle (Representing APCO) FCC/Other Government Agencies Moderating Panel: Jeffery Goldthorp, Chief, Communications Systems Analysis Division, PSHSB John Leibovitz, Deputy Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Kathyrn Medley, Chief, Satellite Engineering Branch and Acting Chief, Systems Analysis Branch, International Bureau Erika Olsen, Senior Advisor, PSHSB Laurie Flaherty, Program Analyst, Office of Emergency Medical Services, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation Charles Hoffman, Chief, Disaster Emergency Communications Programs, Disaster Emergency Communications Division, FEMA Daniel Phythyon, Chief; Policy, Planning & Analysis Division; Office of Emergency Communications, DHS
9:50 am	Panelist Discussion and Responses to Questions
10:45 am	Comments from DHS’ Office of Emergency Communications, Daniel Phythyon; Chief, Policy, Planning & Analysis Division
10:50 am	Comments from FEMA, Charles Hoffman; Chief, Disaster Emergency Communications Programs, Disaster Emergency Communications Division
10:55 am	Break
11:05 am	Panel 2 – Homeland Security: Uses, Benefits and Challenges of Broadband Technologies in Large-Scale Events—Moderator—William Lane, Chief Engineer, PSHSB This panel will examine ways in which broadband technology can enhance homeland security. The panel will explore how best to utilize broadband technologies to prepare for, respond to and recover from major natural disasters, pandemics, acts of terrorism, and cyber attacks. It will also focus on how public safety networks and applications can be secured and protected. The panel will also examine current and potential new applications and research that has been conducted in the managed-IP arena that could improve response to large-scale emergencies. Panelists: Andrew L. Afflerbach, Ph.D.; P.E.; Chief Executive Officer; Director of Engineering; Columbia Telecommunications Corporation—(CTC) [Representing National Assn of Telecommunications Officers &Advisors—NATOA] Emmanuel Hooper, Ph.D., Senior Scholar and Researcher; Harvard University, Leadership for Network World; Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyber Scholar; Founder, Global Information Intelligence Murad Raheem, Branch Chief, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response; Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Marc Sachs, Executive Director, National Security and Cyber Policy, Office of Federal Government Relations, Verizon Government Affairs Steve Souder, Director, Fairfax (Virginia) Department of Public Safety Communication FCC/Other Government Agencies Moderating Panel: Jeff Cohen, Senior Legal Advisor, PSHSB Jon Peha, Chief Technology Officer, FCC Dr. Carlos Kirjner, Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Broadband Charles Hoffman, Chief, Disaster Emergency Communications Programs, Disaster Emergency Communications Division, FEMA Daniel Phythyon, Chief; Policy, Planning & Analysis Division; Office of Emergency Communications, DHS

Attend the Workshop Online:

You’ll need to register to attend the webinar. You’ll also need to set up the required webinar software prior to the event. Also check to make sure that you have the appropriate players needed to playback the UCF (Universal Communications Format) rich media files. The sooner your computer is properly set up, the sooner you can join the event! If you have problems joining a meeting or viewing the webinar, please contact the events administrator.

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