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 4 - How do I move from idea to evidence?
Date: January 10, 2013
Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ET
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This final session will draw on information from the first three sessions to examine three specific case studies.
1st Case Study: Chordoma Patient Portal (Potential Applications of mHealth tools; mHealth to support epidemiology and registry studies)
2nd Case Study: Study on opioid use and impact in the elderly (mHealth tools to support health services intervention studies; Logistics)
3rd Case Study: mHealth Gaming (mHealth tools as the implementation; Funding and Peer Review)
Commentators: Amy Abernethy, MD (Duke); Brian C. Quinn, Ph.D. (RWJF); Bonnie Austin, J.D. (AcademyHealth)