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."
This series will consist of four free 90 minute webinars. Each session can be viewed independently of the others, but the series is designed to provide a stepwise introduction to mHealth technologies.
The series is presented by 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.
Webinar 1 - What are the tools for collecting mHealth data?
A number of approaches exist today, outside of traditional clinical trials, to inexpensively gather primary data to answer critical questions for which secondary analysis of existing data is not ideal. Diffusion of these platforms within the HSR community has been limited. This session will demonstrate how useful HSR data can be collected quickly, reliably, and affordably using innovative new tools.
Date: September 10, 2012
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Introduction to the Series: Amy Abernethy, MD & Bradford Hirsch, MD, MBA (Center for Learning Health Care, Duke Clinical Research Institute)
Moderator: Brad Hesse, PhD (NCI HCIRB),
Faculty: Joel Selanikio, MD (DataDyne) – EpiSurveyor; Amy Abernethy, MD (Duke) – Patient Reported Outcomes; Richard Garfein, PhD, MPH (UCSD) – Adherence Tools
Recording Coming Soon!