mHealth

The Center for Connected Health believes in the power of mobile technology to transform the lives of patients and to improve the quality of care that we provide. We are currently exploring several areas of mHealth, from smartphone applications to wireless data transfer systems that can give patients a closer relationship with their providers.

Center for Connected Health Models of Care

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Sunscreen Adherence

The aim of this trial is to assess the effect of text-message reminders delivered via cell phone on adherence to sunscreen application.

Encouraging Prenatal Care and Support While Battling Addiction

The Center for Connected Health is implementing two pilot programs to explore the benefits of text messaging as a potentially vital enabler to patient engagement in their care plan.

Text Messages as a Reminder Aid and Educational Tool in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis

Our goals were to assess the usability and satisfaction of the text message system, and measure changes in pre- and post-test scores in medication adherence, maintenance behaviors, and disease severity.

Mobile Phone Technology for Children with Diabetes: A Parent Survey

We surveyed parents of children with diabetes to identify their concerns related to their children's diabetes and assess the relationship between these concerns and parental attitudes toward a glucometer integrated into a mobile phone that could provide parents and healthcare providers with a child's real-time glucose readings via text message and a secure website.

Center for Connected Health Models of Care

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Sunscreen Adherence

The aim of this trial is to assess the effect of text-message reminders delivered via cell phone on adherence to sunscreen application.

Encouraging Prenatal Care and Support While Battling Addiction

The Center for Connected Health is implementing two pilot programs to explore the benefits of text messaging as a potentially vital enabler to patient engagement in their care plan.

Text Messages as a Reminder Aid and Educational Tool in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis

Our goals were to assess the usability and satisfaction of the text message system, and measure changes in pre- and post-test scores in medication adherence, maintenance behaviors, and disease severity.

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Mobile Phone Technology for Children with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: A Parent Survey

We surveyed parents of children with diabetes to identify their concerns related to their children's diabetes and assess the relationship between these concerns and parental attitudes toward a glucometer integrated into a mobile phone that could provide parents and healthcare providers with a child's real-time glucose readings via text message and a secure website.

November 2009 | Pena V, Watson AJ, Kvedar JC, Grant RW

Text-Message Reminders to Improve Sunscreen Use: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Using Electronic Monitoring

The aim of this trial is to assess the effect of text-message reminders delivered via cell phone on adherence to sunscreen application.

November 2009 | Armstrong AW, Watson AJ, Makredes M, Frangos JE, Kimball AB, Kvedar JC

Research Materials & External Resources

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Mobile Phone Technology for Children with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: A Parent Survey

We surveyed parents of children with diabetes to identify their concerns related to their children's diabetes and assess the relationship between these concerns and parental attitudes toward a glucometer integrated into a mobile phone that could provide parents and healthcare providers with a child's real-time glucose readings via text message and a secure website.

November 2009 | Pena V, Watson AJ, Kvedar JC, Grant RW

Text-Message Reminders to Improve Sunscreen Use: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Using Electronic Monitoring

The aim of this trial is to assess the effect of text-message reminders delivered via cell phone on adherence to sunscreen application.

November 2009 | Armstrong AW, Watson AJ, Makredes M, Frangos JE, Kimball AB, Kvedar JC

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From Texting To Apps, Using Cell Phones For HealthWhat if my blood sugar's too high today? Is it time for my blood pressure pill? With nagging text messages or more customized two-way interactions, researchers are trying to harness the power of cell phones to help fight chronic diseases.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | The Associated PressApps for health issuesWhile the apps market is crowded with games, music, videos and other entertainment options, there are a growing number of interactive health applications that aim to help consumers better manage the way they eat, exercise, take their medicine and deal with stress.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 | The News JournalMental Health Apps: Like A Therapist In Your PocketMobile phone applications are increasingly being developed and tested worldwide to help bolster treatment options for mental health patients. Several studies are being conducted to explore how the computing power of mobile phones can help patients monitor moods, follow treatment recommendations and manage stress.
Monday, May 24, 2010 | NPRCellphones Now Used More for Data Than for CallsFor many Americans, cellphones have become irreplaceable tools to manage their lives and stay connected to the outside world, their families and networks of friends online. But increasingly, by several measures, that does not mean talking on them very much.
Thursday, May 13, 2010 | New York TimesHopSkipConnect: Everyone, everyday, every way“Healthy behavior. Everyone. Everyday. Everyway.” That’s the ambitious mantra that the Center for Connected Health’s new launch, HopSkipConnect has adopted as its company’s mandate, according to CEO Rick Lee during a presentation at the Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance event in La Jolla, California.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 | mobihealthnewsOptimistic: $5.83 billion in savings from mHealthBy the year 2014 public and private healthcare providers may save between $1.96 billion and $5.83 billion in healthcare costs thanks to remote patient monitoring over cellular networks.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | mobihealthnewsTiny Tool, Huge PotentialThe ubiquitous iPhone is dazzling healthcare observers with its versatility, adaptability, and ease of use.
Monday, April 12, 2010 | For The RecordHow Smartphones Are Changing Health Care for Consumers and ProvidersThe recent adoption and use of smartphones by both consumers and providers of health care are the focus of this timely report by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn.
Friday, April 9, 2010 | California HealthCare FoundationApps useful, familiar to tiny number of patientsPew Internet Research recently published a report that notes that for patients with two chronic illnesses, 52 percent are Internet users. Another Pew study found that 27 percent of patients over 65 years old define themselves as “e-patients”. The director of the Center for Connected Health, Joseph Kvedar, points to the latest Pew Research in the first post of his new Connected Health (cHealth) Blog.
Monday, March 29, 2010 | mobihealthnewsWhy your phone is now the doctor in your pocketSmartphones will soon be diagnosing illness as well as advising on cures. Will we all become iPho-chondriacs?
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | Times OnlineDoes mHealth need a doctor’s prescription?It’s a simple question: Do mobile health tools require a doctor’s prescription? Or will the main driver for mHealth services bubble up from consumers and patients largely without care providers weighing in?
Thursday, February 4, 2010 | mobihealthnewsChopra to announce text message campaign for mothersU.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra kicked off a new text message campaign designed to deliver health information to pregnant women. The initiative, called "text4baby," aims to provide tips that could help curb premature births and infant health problems.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 | The HillApple iPad: Healthcare industry weighs inHealthcare analysts, including the Center's Rob Havasy, react to Apple's new iPad and how it may effect the healthcare industry.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | mobihealthnewsStudy: 42 percent of U.S. uses a smartphoneRob Havasy, a business analyst at the Boston-based Center for Connected Health, penned a thoughtful column on the state of the mHealth market. Havasy’s central point is that mobile health solutions need to be “meaningful” and “available” to all patients.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | mobihealthnewsSmartphones becoming clinical toolsA diagnostic laboratory, complete with an image reader and microscope, can fit into your back pocket. Smartphones -- rapidly being adopted by physicians for transferring medical information -- are turning into clinical tools.
Monday, December 21, 2009 | American Medical NewsSurvey: Parents want mobile diabetes managementClose to 70 percent of parents with children who have Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes had a “very positive” review of a mobile phone glucometer prototype that Partners Healthcare’s Center for Connected Health developed.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | mobihealthnewsMobile Phone Technology May Address Unmet Needs Of Parents Of Children With Diabetes, Sending Blood Sugar Readings Via Text, To Help Manage Child's IllnessIn a recent study conducted by the Center for Connected Health, new data revealed that parents of children with diabetes were receptive to using novel health technology – such as a mobile phone that could collect and transmit the child’s blood sugar readings to a doctor – to help manage their child’s diabetes. This study was published in the November issue of the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology (Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2009).
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 | PR NewswireStudy: Parents of Kids With Diabetes Receptive to Cell Phone GlucometerWhen we last discussed how cell phones could help people with diabetes in June 2008, the conversation centered around how the need for finger pricking could be reduced or eliminated using mobile technology. A new study was released today by the Center for Connected Health that says parents of kids with diabetes are very receptive to using cell phones to help manage their child's diabetes.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 | About.com Guide to Cell PhonesCell Phone Text Messaging Technology is a Low-Cost, Effective Way to Improve Use of Sunscreen and Reduce Risk of Skin CancerA recent study conducted by the Center for Connected Health found that text messaging is an innovative, low-cost and effective way to improve the daily use of sunscreen, and this technology may have important implications for larger-scale public health initiatives.
Thursday, December 3, 2009 | PR NewswireText reminders increase sunscreen useText messaging is an effective tool for reminding patients to use sunscreen, as demonstrated by a study conducted by the Center for Connected Health.
Monday, November 23, 2009 | The Boston GlobeText-Message Reminders to Improve Sunscreen UseThe Center for Connected Health conducted a randomized, controlled trial investigating the effect of an electronic text-message reminder system on adherence to sunscreen application.
November 2009 | Archives of DermatologyGrant will support Center for Connected Health texting for prenatal careThe Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare System in Boston has received a $25,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to expand a text-messaging pilot program for high-risk pregnant women.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | FierceMobile Healthcare
 

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