Blog.AIDS.gov: Lessons for the mHealth HIV Community

Lessons for the mHealth HIV Community
By Jeremy Vanderlan, Lead Programmer, and Michelle Samplin-Salgado, New Media Strategist, AIDS.gov


Gwynne Kostin, GSA

At last week’s mHealth Summit , we had the opportunity to connect with many of our Federal and community partners about how to leverage the mobile web to improve health outcomes (check out the Summit’s YouTube Channel to watch videos of several of the keynotes).

We heard from leading experts, industry leaders, and Federal colleagues over the course of the three-day summit. During the session, “Lessons Learned from Around the Globe ”, Patricia Mechael , Director of Strategic Application of Mobile Technology for Public Health at Columbia University summed up many of the lessons learned in her “top 10 list for the mHealth community”. Below is her list followed by some of our AIDS.gov commentary about how it relates to the HIV community.

10. We must unpack the pathways to mobile behavior change and evaluate the impact that mobile technology is really making on health. Let’s answer the question: How are mobile phones changing health-related behavior?
“There was no shortage of good ideas and pilot projects at mHealth but one of the greatest challenges is moving the ones that are successful to scale,” Andrew Wilson, from SAMHSA told us.

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Blog.AIDS.gov: Lessons for the mHealth HIV Community



At last week's mHealth Summit, we had the opportunity to connect with many of our Federal and community partners about how to leverage the mobile web to improve health outcomes

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Lessons for the mHealth HIV Community - HIV/AIDS