OAKLAND, Calif., May 1, 2013 – Mobile health (mHealth) technologies hold great
promise for helping health care providers deliver high-quality, targeted care to aging
Americans with chronic conditions. The Center for Technology and Aging
(www.techandaging.org) today launched a comprehensive online mHealth Toolkit that
offers key resources to organizations that want to develop a best-in-class mHealth
program for chronic disease management.
“mHealth is an emerging technology that increasingly offers providers new options for
improving the care of America’s aging population, particularly those with a chronic
disease,” said David Lindeman, PhD, Director of the Center for Technology and Aging.
“This new toolkit offers organizations hands-on strategies and best practices for using
mHealth technologies as effectively and efficiently as possible.”
The mHealth Toolkit contains vetted techniques for using mHealth interventions in many
health care settings for individuals with a range of chronic care needs. It has been
developed in collaboration with leading health care providers from around the country as
well as Beacon Communities, a program of the Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology (ONC).
“Reaching patients through their now-ubiquitous mobile devices can be a key to patient
engagement,” notes Korey Capozza, consumer engagement director of HealthInsight,
part of the Utah Beacon Community. “We have this huge opportunity to use mHealth to
better manage patient care outside the clinic, as well as to use the mobile device that’s
in a person’s purse or pocket to help them better manage their own health.”
A free one-hour webinar on the mHealth Toolkit is scheduled for May 29 from 10:00am
to 11:00am PDT (1:00pm to 2:00pm EDT). To register, go to: http://bit.ly/17g3mzR
The webinar will feature lessons learned and commentary from Jason Broad, a pioneer
in mHealth at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, and HealthInsight’s Capozza. Also
presenting will be Alex Baker, Project Officer for the ONC.
The mHealth Toolkit is part of CTA’s ADOPT Toolkit (http://toolkit.techandaging.org/),
which can be used by organizations seeking to improve patient care and health care
utilization for chronic care management.
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About Us
The Center for Technology and Aging (www.techandaging.org) is a national resource
center that supports the adoption and diffusion of technology-enabled care for older
adults. A Public Health Institute center of excellence, CTA is located in Oakland, Calif.
