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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: Broadband Consumer Context

From the official  FCC event website:

Broadband internet access presents consumers with a range of challenges and opportunities as the internet becomes a focal point for commercial transactions, social networking, and a host of activities pertaining to information gathering and exchange. E-commerce can save consumers time and money as they search out the best bargains from home. Online health care information can give users the wherewithal to ask better questions of their health care providers or seek support and advice from others in the face of a health care problem.

These activities typically involve the sharing of information – financial and personal – with institutions and individuals that make online access worthwhile. This may raise concerns among some consumers about the real or perceived risks that their information may wind up in the wrong hands.

This workshop will examine the broader context of the consumer experience from the perspective of the benefits it confers to consumers, the risks that may be associated with the benefits, and the obligations broadband connectivity may impose on consumers and institutions in an environment of pervasive data sharing and availability.

Workshop/Webinar Information:

Date: Wednesday, 9/9/09
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Room TW-C305 (Commission Meeting Room)
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
Directions
Coordinator: Rachel Kazan
Phone: (202) 418-0651

Agenda and Participant Bios

Topics (Preliminary):

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.

• What are the nature and scope of consumer benefits to e-commerce, online comparison shopping, and other activities that may confer informational benefits to people in their interactions with government, health care providers, and other institutions? What, for instance, are the efficiency gains from the internet’s capacity to help people organize activities in their communities (e.g., with respect to sports leagues, church activities, and volunteer organizations)?
• To what extent is an individual’s personal information at risk in the course of everyday online activities, whether they are associated with commerce, communication, or collaboration? Are there other online safety considerations?
• As more applications and personal data migrate to “cloud computing” platform, what are the policy challenges pertaining to security of data on such platforms, as well as ownership and control of users’ data?
• Among consumers, industry, government, and civil society institutions, what is the proper locus of responsibility for addressing these policy challenges?

Agenda

1:30 pm	Workshop Introduction, John Horrigan, Consumer Research Director, Omnibus Broadband Initiative, Moderator
1:40 pm	Panel 1- Evolving Technology: New Challenges for Consumers Michael R. Nelson, Visiting Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University Sascha Meinrath, Director – Open Technology Initiative, New America Foundation Joel Kelsey, Policy Analyst, Consumers Union Ari Schwartz, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Center for Democracy and Technology Debra Berlyn, President, Consumer Policy Solutions
2:05 pm	Panelist Discussion and Responses to Questions
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Panel 2 – Meeting New Challenges: Tools & Techniques
3:05 pm	Panelists Adam Thierer, Director, Center for Digital Media Freedom and Senior Fellow, Progress and Freedom Foundation Alan Simpson, Director of Policy, Common Sense Media Burke Culligan, Senior Director – Product Management, Yahoo!, Inc. Michael W. McKeehan, Executive Director – Internet and Technology Policy, Verizon Timothy Sparapani, Director, Public Policy, Facebook
3:30 pm	Panelist Discussion and Responses to Questions
4:15 pm	Closing Statements, Moderator
4:30 pm	Adjournment

Can’t make a trip to DC? 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.

Tweet your questions!
Submit questions to panelists from Twitter @fccdotgov. Use hashtag #BBwkshp to have your question asked during the workshop.

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