A set of tools for building cell-phone apps that collect health-related information aims to change the way health information is stored, shared, and used.
The Open mHealth project, developed at UCLA and UCSF, provides technology for health apps that transmit a variety of data to the project's central data warehouse. This data can include information entered by users and also such things as smart-phone GPS- and accelerometer-tracking information. One pilot project, for instance, is studying the diet, stress, movement, and exercise patterns of overweight new mothers. Users have control over what data is captured and get to choose with whom it is shared. Hospitals, health-care providers, and startup companies could design additional apps to draw on the data.
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Author: KATHARINE GAMMON
