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 theDuke Clinical Research Institute.
Webinar 2 - What are the logistical hurdles to using mHealth data in HSR?
Many in the HSR community have questions about the quality of primary data collection and the associated complexities of adoption. In this webinar, early adopters will discuss how they dealt with barriers and challenges, including practical impediments to using technology solutions, regulatory and IRB concerns, data security, and IT infrastructure.
Date: October 1, 2012
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Moderator: Bradford Hirsch, MD MBA (Duke)
Faculty: Wendy Nilsen, PhD (NIH OBSSR) – Impediments to Uptake; Ethan Basch, MD (Memorial Sloan-Kettering) – Regulatory & IRB Concerns; Jason Goldwater, MPA (eHealth Initiative) – Data Security & IT Infrastructure