There is a lot of buzz in hospitals, clinics, and health plans as well with payers about the need to implement mHealth solutions.  mHealth Initiative is holding a one-day mHealth Ecosystem Workshop December 9, 2010 a the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel & Conference Center to address the nuts and bolts of mHealth implementation: This is not a seminar but rather an interactive workshop where you can discuss with others your ideas, strategies, hurdles, and solutions. 

Preliminary Agenda

8:00            Introductions

8:15            What is mHealth and what are the parts that are implemented today?  

9:45            Would you like to start texting your patients?  Interactive workshop on text messaging with experienced leaders:  How to start, what to do, what policies and privacy issues need to be addressed.

11:00            The Next Big Thing:  Creating Collaboration Systems for Care Teams to Discuss Care – Better quality of care depends on getting all key people involved in a patient’s care to discuss what has been done and what should be done regarding a patient’s care.  Learn how hospitals and clinics have implemented low cost systems for comprehensive care communication that makes a difference.  What systems are available, what are the hurdles, how about HIPAA?

12:15            Lunch Break

1:15            Thousands of Medical Apps on iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android:  Should You Encourage or Discourage Clinicians? What support can you give?  How can you integrate the data?  Do you know which apps  your docs and nurses use? 

3:00            Break

3:30            Understanding Consumer/Patient Apps  Should you be concerned or encourage patients to use fitness apps and mobile phone apps that capture vitals and track information?  What can be done to automatically capture patient information sent from their mobile phones?

5:00            Workshop adjourned

Note: On-site registration available at $295.