The document discusses the potential of mHealth, which leverages mobile and wireless technology to enhance health outcomes and service delivery globally. It highlights various applications and categories of mHealth, the challenges faced in its implementation, and the importance of rigorous evaluation for the effectiveness of mHealth strategies. The document emphasizes that transformative technologies, such as apps and cloud computing, can help improve health access, reduce costs, and change health behaviors.

1. mHealth: Beyond
Consumer Apps
Jill Freyne, CSIRO
jill.freyne@csiro.au
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2. Introduction
• Jill Freyne
• PhD Computer Science, University
College Dublin
• IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney
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5. Digital Productivity
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6. Tutorial Overview
• mHealth
• Consumer Health vs Health Services
• Health Apps
• HealthyWell
• mHealth in Hospitals
• Practice and Clinical
• Patient Apps
• Challenges
• Interactive component
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7. Global Health Challenge
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8. Inequality in Service Delivery
Health
Professionals per
10000
Major
cities
Very
Remote
GPs 324 70
Nurses 978 589
Allied Health 354 64
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http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/
ICT-and-Services/National-
Challenges/Satellite-
Telehealth.aspx

9. Living Longer
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10. Great Expectations
http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Partner/Futures/Our-Future-World-report.aspx
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11. Cost of Living Longer
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12. Impact of Shrinking
Workforce
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1999))
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13. Problem
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Shrinking(Workforce(
• Reduced(tax(base(
• Re7ring(health(workers(
• Less(access(to(services(
Growing(Demands(
• More(pa7ents(
• Increased(costs(
• More(chronic(disease(
• Higher(expecta7ons(

14. mHealth - part of the
solution
the practice of
medicine and public
health supported by
mobile devices
mHealth is the use of mobile and
wireless devices to improve health
outcomes, healthcare services and
health research
mHealth involves the use and capitalization on a
mobile phone’s core utility of voice and short
messaging service (SMS) as well as more complex
functionalities and applications including general
packet radio service (GPRS), third and fourth
generation mobile telecommunications (3G and 4G
systems), global positioning system (GPS), and
Bluetooth technology
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15. Global penetration of mobile
devices
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16. Tip of the iceberg
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17. Roadmap for mHealth
“Smart mobile devices and applications, working in concert
with cloud computing, social networking and big data analytics,
will be at the core of global health care transformation. These
transformative technologies will continue to lead with ways to
help rein in cost, broaden access, change behaviors and improve
outcomes.”
Pat Hyek
The use of mobile and wireless technologies to
support the achievement of health objectives
(mHealth) has the potential to transform the face of
health service delivery across the globe. (WHO
2011)
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18. WHO mHealth Categories
• health call centres
• emergency toll-free
telephone services
• managing emergencies and
disasters
• mobile telemedicine
• appointment reminders
• community mobilization
and health promotion,
• treatment compliance
• mobile patient records
• information access
• patient monitoring
• health surveys and data
collection
• surveillance
• health awareness raising
• decision support systems
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19. Uptake of mHealth
mHealth: New horizons for health through mobile technologies: second global survey on eHealth
www.who.int/goe/publications/goe_mhealth_web.19
pdf

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21. mHealth Barriers
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22. Take up the challenge
• mHealth programmes require evaluation. This is the
foundation from which mHealth (and eHealth) can be
measured (WHO 2011)
• “Based on these results, we posit that the field is entering a
new ‘era’ where a body of rigorous evaluation of mHealth
strategies is rapidly accumulating. The transition into an era
of evidence-based mHealth supports our position that
innovation in this domain can be evaluated with the same
rigor as other public health strategies, attenuating some of
the hype previously associated with mHealth.” - Alain
Labrique, Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative
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23. Consumer Health vs
Health Services
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24. Healthy Well
• Focus on Individual
• Encourage Behaviour Change
• Self awareness/monitoring
• Gamification/Competition
• Social support
• Education
• Persuasive
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25. drugs.com
• Free
• Education
• Impact: increased
understanding,
confidence, self
management
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26. 26 http://www.csiro.au/digitalhealth

27. Kids Doc
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28. Premium Content
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29. Food Switch -
Behaviour Change
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30. FoodSwitch has empowered Australian consumers
seeking to make better food choices. In parallel,
the huge volume of crowdsourced data has
provided a novel means for low-cost, real-time
tracking of the nutritional composition of
Australian foods. There appears to be significant
opportunity for this approach in many other
countries.
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31. Symple
• Self Monitoring/
Reflection
• $5.99
• Impact: Self
awareness, self
management, data
collection
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32. Education Apps
…. 55 unique apps met the inclusion criteria…. Only 6 apps
(11%) covered all 4 of these prevention areas. Eight apps
(15%) provided tools or resources specifically for HIV/STD
positive persons. Ten apps included information for a range of
sexual orientations, 9 apps appeared to be designed for
racially/ethnically diverse audiences, and 15 apps featured
interactive components. Apps were infrequently downloaded
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highly rated

33. Fitness
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34. Designed for Impact
• Behavioural Science
• goal setting
• behaviour change theory
• user perception
• tailoring and personalisation
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35. !
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40 Apps - 20 free, 20 paid. The most frequently included
BCTs were “provide instruction” (83% of the apps), “set
graded tasks” (70%), and “prompt self-monitoring” (60%).
Techniques Presence of such BCTs as “varied teach by to use app prompts/type and cues”, price; “however,
agree on
BCTs behavioural associated contract”, with increased “relapse intervention prevention” effectiveness
and “time
management” were in general were not more present common in the in apps paid apps.
reviewed.
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36. The present study demonstrated that apps promoting physical
activity applied an average of 5 out of 23 possible behavior
change techniques. This number was not different for paid and
free apps or between app stores. The most frequently used
behavior change techniques in apps were similar to those
most frequently used in other types of physical activity
promotion interventions.
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37. Diets
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38. Obesity is common,
serious and costly
• More than one-third (or 78.6 million) of U.S.
adults are obese (JAMA. 2014;311(8):806-814.)
• Obesity-related conditions include heart disease,
stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer,
some of the leading causes of preventable death.
• The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in
the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008 U.S. dollars; the
medical costs for people who are obese were
$1,429 higher than those of normal weight.
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39. Obesity
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40. Evidence base…..
Text ……messaging We identified interventions 75 trials. Fifty-increased nine trials adherence investigated to ART the
and
smoking use of mobile cessation technologies and should to be improve considered disease for management
inclusion in
services. and 26 Although trials investigated there is suggestive their use evidence to change of health
benefit in
behaviours. some other Nearly areas, high all trials quality were adequately conducted powered in high-trials income
of
optimised interventions are required to evaluate effects on
countries……
objective outcomes.
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41. Impromy
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42. Informed Program
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43. Impromy Clinical trial
• Behaviour change focussed app - push
notifications, tasks, rewards, self monitoring
• Randomised Control Trial in clinical setting
• 100 participants per group
• 3 and 6 months follow up
• Validated weight loss, improvements in mood,
attitude change, positivity toward continuing
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44. Impromy Community
Trial
• 4000+ participants
• data from app usage, pharmacy database
and social media monitoring
• real world impact of program
• insight into weight loss shake programs
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45. BrainHQ Science
• Posit Science
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46. 46
IMPACT Study

47. Lumocity
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48. mHealth in Hospitals
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49. Epocrates
• 1 million
healthcare
professionals
nationwide
• 50% of users use
for 20 minutes
each day
• Decision support
• Drug Interaction
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50. Drip Infusion - IV Drip
Rate Calculator &
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51. iCombat HAIs
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52. PicSafe Medi
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53. Cultural Key Phrases
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54. Paramedic Protocol Provider
By Acid Remap LLC
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55. Clean Me
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56. mHealth for Patients
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57. Emergency ID
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58. PSA (Psychological
Symptoms Analyzer)
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59. Recovery Record Clinician
- Eating Disorder
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60. AliveECG
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61. Accuracy and Precision
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62. Diabetes Self Management
Adults with type 2 diabetes using WellDoc's software achieved
statistically significant improvements in A1c. HCP and patient
satisfaction with the system was clinically and statistically
significant.
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63. While a wide selection of mobile applications seems to be
available for people with diabetes, this study shows there are
obvious gaps between the evidence-based recommendations
and the functionality used in study interventions or found in
online markets. Current results confirm personalized
education as an underrepresented feature in diabetes mobile
applications. We found no studies evaluating social media
concepts in diabetes self-management on mobile devices, and
its potential remains largely unexplored.
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64. Melanoma Detection
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65. Melanoma detection
Sensitivity of the four tested applications ranged from 6.8% to
98.1%. Specificity ranged from 30.4% to 93.7%. Positive
predictive value ranged from 33.3% to 42.1%, and negative
predictive value ranged from 65.4% to 97.0%. The highest
sensitivity for melanoma diagnosis was observed for an
application that sends the image directly to a board-certified
dermatologist for analysis and the lowest sensitivity was
observed for applications that use automated algorithms to
analyze 65
images.

66. mHealth for Clinics
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67. Self Check in
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68. Peek Vision
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69. Peak Vision
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70. Cardiac Assessment
Platform
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71. Cardiac Assessment
Platform
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72. This smartphone-based home care CR programme improved
post-MI CR uptake, adherence and completion. The home-based
CR programme was as effective in improving
physiological and psychological health outcomes as traditional
CR. CAP-CR is a viable option towards optimising use of CR
services.
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74. Primary Outcomes
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75. iMims
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76. UpToDate
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79. mHealth Barriers
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80. More pilots than an
airline
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82. Clinical Trials
• Can it work
• Controlled
environment
• Accurate data
• Low attrition rates
• Costly - hard to
justify to grant
agencies
• Research Focussed
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83. Community Trial
• Will it work
• Cost effective
• Risk of failure
• Self report data
• fewer opportunities
to ask questions
• High impact
• Uptake challenges
• High attrition
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84. [Health Data is] the
most valuable
information in the
digital age, bar none. Deborah
Peel, Patient Privacy Rights
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85. Regulation
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86. http://www.slideshare.net/RockHealth/fda-101-a-guide-to-the-fda-for-digital-health-
entrepreneurs

87. Return on Investment
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88. Roadmap for mHealth
“Smart mobile devices and applications, working in concert
with cloud computing, social networking and big data analytics,
will be at the core of global health care transformation. These
transformative technologies will continue to lead with ways to
help rein in cost, broaden access, change behaviors and improve
outcomes.”
Pat Hyek
The use of mobile and wireless technologies to
support the achievement of health objectives
(mHealth) has the potential to transform the face of
health service delivery across the globe. (WHO
2011)
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89. • What’s the aim of your app?
• Condi'on
• Specifica'ons
• Partners
• Users
•Who
would
invest
in
its
development?
(Government,
health
insurance,
corporate?)
•Who
will
benefit
from
it
(financially
and
health
outcomes)
•How
will
you
show
its
value?
• Trial?
• Timeframe?
• Key
Performance
Indicators?
• Costs?
! •Key
Challenges
you
will
face
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