Mobile Health (mHealth)

The mHealth field is a rapidly growing area of health technology and has significant potential to improve care processes, expand access to care, augment other home care technologies, and reduce the costs of care. mHealth is broadly defined as the delivery of health-related services to patients, clinicians and caregivers through mobile technology platforms on cellular or wireless networks. Mobile technologies can include, but are not limited to, tablets, cell phones (hardware and software), smartphones, mobile-enabled diagnostic devices, or devices with mobile alert systems.

The areas of mHealth technology-enabled services that can be addressed in this grants program include medication compliance, chronic disease monitoring, safety monitoring, access to health information, and related areas. The health care problem selected by applicants must be significant, widespread, and addressable by mHealth technologies.