HCFO Webinar Recording Available: Leveraging Mobile Health (mHealth) Solutions for Health Services Research, Session 1

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For health services researchers seeking to address questions related to health care financing and organization, public/population health, comparative effectiveness, and disparities, mHealth tools can provide a cost effective means to move beyond the usual reliance on claims data. These devices can be used to collect and work with information on patients’ characteristics, communities, experiences and outcomes, as well as data on providers and delivery systems. New tools are highly effective, efficient, flexible, affordable and ubiquitous - and readily usable, regardless of technological "savvy."

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) program, in collaboration with the Center for Learning Health Care at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, is conducting a four-part webinar series designed to provide a stepwise introduction to mHealth technologies.

In the first webinar of the series, held on September 10, 2012, speakers Joel Selanikio of DataDyne Group LLC, Amy Abernethy of Duke University, and Richard Garfein of the University of California San Diego shared how useful HSR data can be collected quickly, reliably, and affordably using innovative new tools.  The discussion was moderated by Brad Hesse, Ph.D., chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch.

Speakers:

• Joel Selanikio, M.D., is founder of DataDyne Group LLC.
• Amy Abernethy, M.D., is Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at Duke University School of Medicine and School of Nursing, Director of the Duke Cancer Care Research Program, and Medical Director of Oncology Quality, Outcomes and Patient-centered Care in Duke University Health System.
• Richard Garfein, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Professor in the Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, at the University of California, San Diego.

A recording of the webinar is available at:
http://www.academyhealth.org/Training/ResourceDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=9720