mHealth Blog
The mHealth Monitor blog is an open, collaborative space for experts and practitioners in the field of mHealth to share ideas. The foundational posts will feature thinking that originated at a workshop in December 2015, when the National Cancer Institute (NCI) convened a group of 20 thought leaders in the field of mHealth, smoking cessation, and evaluation. The primary objective of this meeting was to find ways to explore key scientific methods that allow for evaluation of smart design efforts to help people quit smoking, while keeping pace with technology. While the first set of posts will focus on evaluation, our goal is to amplify the conversation within the larger mHealth community, with the aim of improving how mHealth interventions are designed, delivered, and evaluated to effectively carry out health behavior change.
If you are reading this, you are probably interested in these topics and that likely means you have something relevant to share. We invite you to add your comments and consider posting on a topic that is of interest to you. We hope this will be a lively space for people to toss out ideas, share opinions, respectfully debate one another, and collectively move the thinking forward on how to build well designed, effective mHealth interventions.
In 2003, the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the Smokefree.gov initiative (SFGI), a large mobile health smoking cessation program. The Smokefree.gov Initiative (SFGI) has since evolved into numerous mobile-optimized websites, smartphone applications, text message programs, and social media channels.
With such diverse resources, ensuring that these tools reach current smokers, including smokers who represent vulnerable...
As mobile technologies continue to advance and grow, the world of mobile health (mHealth) is seeing parallel growth. As of 2016, there are roughly 259,000 mHealth related apps available1. Last year,...