Mobile Health WG Report to

International CouncilHL7 Working Group MeetingPhoenix, AZ, USA

2013-01-13

Co-chairs:•Gora Datta

gora@cal2cal.com •Nadine ManjaroNadine.Manjaro@VerizonWireless.com

A STAR IS BORN!

Mobile Health WG: the newbie was formally

launched at May’12 WGM

First full WG meeting took place in Sep’12 at

Baltimore WGM

Group meets every Friday at 11am EST

– Listserv: mobilehealth@lists.hl7.org

– Wiki: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=Mobile_Health

Active participation by many “HL first timers”

0 to 60 in 3 months

Multiple (active) Sub Groups:Definition, Scope and Context (DEF)Education and Communication (EDU-COM)External Standards Gap Analysis (EXT-STD)Low to Medium Income Countries (LMIC)Security (SEC)Standards Gap Analysis - PHR/Mobile (STD-GAP)Use Case Development/ Scenario (UCD)

Serious Stuff#1: MHWG MISSION

The HL7 Mobile Health Work Group creates and promotes health information technology standards and frameworks for mobile health.

Serious Stuff#2: MHWG CHARTER

Identify data standards and functional requirements that are specific to the mobile health environment

Identify and promote mobile health concepts for interoperability as adopted and adapted for use in the mobile environment

Coordinate and cooperate with other groups interested in using mobile health to promote health, wellness, public health, clinical, social media, and other settings.

Provide a forum where HL7 members and stakeholders collaborate in standardizing to enable the secure exchange, storage, analysis, and transmission of data and information for mobile applications and/or mobile devices.

Reaching Out…

Free tutorial on “HL7’s Mobile Health Activities” by

Ann Wrightson (HL7 UK)

– Phoenix’13 WGM (Q3-Sedona 3)

1st Newsletter (Quarterly?) by the WG: in publication

Trial by fire

– Looking into participating in a Large Scale Pilot-project in

Africa, India

Rolling Out…

Pilot-project to provide access to healthcare in (underserved) rural regions, leveraging:

– Health Care Standards framework– Mobile Health Technology platform– Health-Tech Workers (new care team member category)– Cloud Computing infrastructure– Alternate Energy –Powered Devices

Initial Target population: subset of 3 million household

Subsequent: over 100M!!!

Activities: India

Pilot-project to provide access to healthcare in (underserved) rural regions, leveraging:

– Health Care Standards framework– Mobile Health Technology platform– Health-Tech Workers (new care team member category)– Cloud Computing infrastructure– Alternate Energy –Powered Devices

Working with Non-Government Organizations and Grassroots organizations

Targeting District (Purulia) population: 3 million

Activities: India (continued)

Target populations: Women and Children– In-utero:

Pregnancy monitoring Pregnancy and post-pregnancy education

– Neo natal: Birth registry National Person Identifier Midwife training

– Early childcare: Immunization Nutrition Allergies, intolerances, sensitivities Wellness education

Activities: Niger

Face-to-face meeting with Ministry of Public Health officials in April 2012; ongoing discussions

Reviewing the (government-provided) National System for Public Health modernization plan

Niger is keen to receive international input / help in meeting its modernization plan

– Intend to propose a project that is similar to the India project

MAKE A DIFFERENCE….

Require international participation and involvement!!!

For additional information, please contact MHWG co-chairs