Center for Tech and Aging Builds a Mobile Health Program

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.