4. what is mhealth?
mHealth (em-‘helth )
an abbreviation for mobile health, a term
used for the practice of medicine and public
health supported by mobile devices
5. the promise of mHealth:
eliminate doctor visits
remote / automatic diagnosis
equalize developing countries
6. stress check
telemedicinefitness trainer
heart rate
current mhealth
remote training43,000 apps for health on the app store
96% are for calorie counting & exercise
4% are remote monitoring
!
yet to be a disruptive mHealth technology
7. consider physician’s needs
connecting with patient
tracking baselines
personalized trending data
managing chronic disease
75% of all US healthcare spending
is on chronic disease
source: center for disease control, 2014
8. mHealth sensing in the home
for managing disease
compliance?
cost?
privacy?
data reliability?
41. study enrollment
participants 52
18-75 years old, mostly healthy
study a
participants 10
12-17 years old, mixed healthy/abnormal
study b
participants 56
10-69 years old, mostly abnormal
study c
enrolledby
hospitals
71. Study Evaluation
100 newborn participants
• <1 day old when
enrolled
• 59% white
!
2 medical centers
!
Data collected by medical
professionals using
iPhone 4S
Photos: with &
without flash
TSB (ground truth)
TcB (control)
3 - 5 days old
95. eric c. larson | eclarson.com
flipping the clinic
Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering
in home health monitoring using mobile phones
collaborators:!
Suku Nair
Eric Bing
Joseph Camp
Dinesh Rajan
Sohail Rafiqi
Mark Wang
Shwetak Patel
Jim Stout, MD
Jim Taylor, MD
Margaret Rosenfeld, MD
Gaetano Boriello
Mayank Goel
Lilian DeGreef
eclarson.com
eclarson@lyle.smu.edu
@ec_larson