@mHealthSummit Day 3 in Washington
From the Department of Bold Assertions:
Margaret Hamburg of @us_fda: Widespread use of #mhealth will improve health care and health care delivery. #mhealth13
— iHealthBeat.org (@iHealthBeat) December 11, 2013
The skeptic’s immediate response is: How so? We will find out by watching, and participating in, the great traditional strategy of the digital age product and industry development: Create it, put it out there, adjust, adjust and adjust some more.
Will be a BIG win when #quantifiedself and evidence-based medicine geeks can fully align. We ain't there yet, sadly. #mhealth13
— Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey) December 11, 2013
The Quantified Self movement equates directly to the integrative health ethos of self-care, in particular for identifying those lifestyle habits that can be improved by tracking the effects of activities someone adopts. Like wearing a Fitbit, or any of the countless monitoring devices on the market. But this includes getting on a scale and counting calories, even if the numbers are not fed into a database.
RT @kathymccoy @mhealthsummit MT @MobiHealthNews: Mayo’s iPad study saw 98% engagement among seniors >> http://t.co/VURfmFXGnN #mHealth13
— Art Baron (@artbaron) December 11, 2013
Dr. David J. Cook who led the Mayo study presented early findings yesterday (reported in mobihealthnews) 149 cardiac patients aged 52 to 85 were given iPads with the preloaded app My Care, giving each a daily to-do list and the means to record their: a) mobility (both self-reported and via Fitbit data) and b) pain. Results are monitored by the patient and by remote physicians, with clear implications for intervention strategies.
“Patients completed 98 percent of the 1,418 self-assessments we threw at them,” Cook said. The rate of engagement was the same for all age groups.
For the population cohort whose members experience the most acute and prolonged chronic illnesses, and who have often chosen integrative therapies to soften their physical, emotional and spiritual consequences, reports like this one are of great consequence. (Mayo has been dabbling in tablet-accessible apps for several years.)
#mHealth13 if providers take better care of patients then they should cost less, says Aetna at 1st Pharma round table at summit
— Susan Schreiner (@c4trends) December 11, 2013
This tweet is highly suggestive of the potential for a new expanded model of primary care — strengthening basic health, lower costs of care — that is infused with added integrative disciplines, like those that have been established at:
- Arizona Integrative Health Center in Phoenix, AZ
- Casey Health Institute in Gaithersburg, MD
So far as I know (and Casey Health has been a client, still in its first half-year of operations), there is not yet much in the way of mobile health supporting the patient-patron relationships established by these innovative enterprises.
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