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SUMMARY:mHealth Summit 2009 ... Mobile Technologies as a Platform for 
 Health Research and Healthcare Delivery
DESCRIPTION:mHealth Summit\nA Summit on Mobile Technologies as a Platf
 orm for Health Research and Healthcare Delivery\n\nOctober 29-30, 2009
 \nRonald Reagan Building\nWashington, DC\n\nThe mHealth Summit, a publ
 ic-private partnership of the Foundation for the National Institutes o
 f Health, will focus on mobile technologies as a platform for health r
 esearch and healthcare delivery.\n\n* Online Registration\n* Informati
 on on the agenda, presentations, and accomodations\n\nAbout the mHealt
 h Summit\n\nThe two-day event will explore the role of biomedical rese
 arch as the driver for the development of compelling applications base
 d on mobile technology. The Summit will bring together 450 to 600 U.S.
  and international researchers, technology experts, and policymakers i
 n the public sector, as well as those from academia, industry, and NGO
 s to:\n\n* Assess current policies regarding mobile health technologie
 s and their use in reducing or eliminating domestic and global health 
 disparities\n* Build bridges between the scientific community and mobi
 le technology developers to identify mHealth solutions\n* Highlight sc
 ientific opportunities and challenges in using mobile technologies to 
 improve public health\n* Discuss and craft a vision for the developmen
 t and use of mobile technologies in the future\n\nThe agenda will incl
 ude several case study tracks, as well as panel discussions that addre
 ss broad themes related to mobile technologies as tools for research a
 nd improving health. The mHealth Summit program committee has announce
 d a call for presentations and is seeking case studies that describe c
 urrent or completed research projects using mobile technologies to imp
 rove research data collection, healthcare delivery, health outcomes, a
 nd/or health and science education. All NIH Institutes and Centers are
  strongly urged to encourage researchers from their intramural and ext
 ramural communities to submit presentation abstracts.\n\nCurrent partn
 ering Institutes and Centers include:\n\n* Fogarty International Cente
 r (FIC)\n* National Cancer Institute (NCI)\n* National Center on Minor
 ity Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)\n* National Center on Resear
 ch Resources (NCRR)\n* National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol
 ism (NIAAA)\n* National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioenginee
 ring (NIBIB)\n* National Library of Medicine (NLM)\n\nAdditional Insti
 tutes or Centers that are interested in helping to plan the Summit sho
 uld contact:\n\nDr. Barbara Mittleman\nDirector, Program on Public-Pri
 vate Partnerships, Office of Science Policy\n\nSponsors\n\nThe mHealth
  Summit is sponsored by FNIH in partnership with the NIH, the U.S. Sta
 te Department, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Jo
 hnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Found
 ation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, and the World Bank
 . Supporting industry members are Microsoft Research, the Abbott Fund,
  Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer, Inc.\n\nFor more information visit htt
 ps://medtechiq.ning.com/events/mhealth-summit-2009-mobile
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CATEGORIES:summit
LOCATION:Ronald Reagan Building
WEBSITE:http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?i=3f4a1950-ffd8
 -497f-8d67-d7703d040ef2
URL:http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?i=3f4a1950-ffd8-497
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CONTACT:Richard M. Scarfo 301-496-9921 Email:  rscarfo@fnih.org
ORGANIZER:Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
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