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7th Annual mHealth Summit & Global mHealth Forum

Date: 
November 9, 2015 - November 11, 2015
Location: 
Gaylord National Convention Center at National Harbor MD

The 7th annual mHealth Summit, now a track and part of the HIMSS Connected Health Conference, 'puts new emphasis on innovation and the power it holds to engage and connect – anytime, anywhere'.

The HIMSS Connected Health Conference now includes: the mHealth Summit, Global mHealth Forum, Population Health Summit and the CyberSecurity Summit.  

The second annual Global mHealth Forum (GmHF) takes place on Tuesday, November 10th & Wednesday, November 11th, 2015 at the mHealth Summit in Washington, DC. This year, there is one registration for the Summit and the Forum, with special prices for government, students, and those from developing countries. 

The agenda for the Global mHealth Forum is available here. This year the following categories for presentations includes:

  • Community Health - Interventions, perspectives, research studies, partnerships or technologies targeting the general population, clients, caregivers, youth, gatekeepers, special needs populations, etc.
  • Provider Challenges and Solutions - Covering a broad range of providers including community health workers, traditional birth attendants, midwives, doctors, pharmacists, lab techs, drug vendors, etc.
  • Methodologies for Designing, Implementing and Scaling mHealth - Processes and approaches for design, development, monitoring, evaluating
  • Enabling Factors - Partnerships, capacity building, financial sustainability, hardware, infrastructure (instead of access), regulatory policies, interoperability

In addition, four interactive sessions are planned (see details here):

Creating Leaders to Sustain a mHealth Solution for CHWs

Economic and Financial Evaluations of mHealth Programs

The Business Case for mHealth: Getting from Pilots to Scale

The mHeath Assessment and Planning for Scale (M.A.P.S.) Tool