Mobile health, or mHealth, uses mobile technologies such as cellphones, smartphones, tablet computers, and personal digital assistants as platforms for health research, education, and health delivery. These technologies—and the healthcare applications that run on them—promise to dramatically change the delivery of healthcare, and have the potential to ultimately improve clinical outcomes and lower costs. What do these trends mean for those who develop, implement, manage, and use medical devices?
Articles on all mobile health topics are invited, including:
- Factors behind the mHealth trend
- Overview of mHealth technologies
- Regulation of mHealth technologies
- Mobile devices: accuracy, image quality, software version control, and more
- Testing and performance validation
- Managing suppliers and supplier quality
- Design and usability of mHealth devices
- Device security and privacy issues
- Workflow impact on clinician interactions with technology and patients
- Analysis of clinician needs and wishes in mobile health
- Infrastructure requirements for mHealth deployment
- Support models for mHealth technologies and infrastructures
- Financing of mHealth technologies and impact on supply costs
- Tips in evaluating, selecting, and implementing mobile devices
- Bridging the divide between professional and consumer devices
To Submit an Abstract, send a brief description of your idea (250 words or less) by March 15, 2012 to Erika Hatva at ehatva@aami.org.
Author Guidelines are available at www.aami.org/publications/AuthorGuidelines.pdf
Abstracts due: March 15, 2012
Full papers due: May 1, 2012
Approximate mailing date: September 2012
Questions? E-mail Erika Hatva at ehatva@aami.org or call +1-703-253-8264
