Broader Impacts Dissemination of Results The content of workshop presentations, speeches, and discussions will be made available over the web so they may be shared freely, with the expectation that the use of these materials in published work will credit the original author/source. The organizing committee also expects to prepare a written report of workshop findings for open distribution via the National Science Foundation website, other federal agencies, and the conference website. Conference organizers will also seek to publish summary findings in peer reviewed publications of relevance to participating stakeholders.
Expected contributions to the field mHealth technologies will no doubt be an integral component of future interventions to treat illness and promote health. Although JITAI (Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions) is widely regarded as the next evolution of personalized medicine, current perspectives of personalized medicine focus on tailoring interventions based on patient's genetics, sociodemographics, stage of change, or other baseline variable. JITAI, on the other hand, extends intervention tailoring beyond baseline status and adjusts or adapts the intervention over the course of the intervention as the patient's status changes. Accomplishing JITAI involves research challenges at multiple levels -
Addressing these challenges requires dedicated efforts to bridge the interests of computer scientists and engineers, health researchers, and industry professionals with those who will utilize, pay for, and implement the resulting technologies and interventions over the long-term. This will likely require a targeted funding program(s) at the federal level with sufficient support and focus in agenda to catalyze and coalesce the mHealth collaborative community. By providing a forum that facilitates crosstalk among thought leaders from the range of stakeholders interested in mHealth, we expect to make a signature contribution towards NSF’s interests in this broader scientific agenda. |
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