Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
J Health Commun. 2012;17 Suppl 1:5-10. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2012.677394.
Mobile health (mHealth) technologies have the potential to greatly impact health research, health care, and health outcomes, but the exponential growth of the technology has outpaced the science. This article outlines two initiatives designed to enhance the science of mHealth. The mHealth Evidence Workshop used an expert panel to identify optimal methodological approaches for mHealth research. The NIH mHealth Training Institutes address the silos among the many academic and technology areas in mHealth research and is an effort to build the interdisciplinary research capacity of the field. Both address the growing need for high quality mobile health research both in the United States and internationally. mHealth requires a solid, interdisciplinary scientific approach that pairs the rapid change associated with technological progress with a rigorous evaluation approach. The mHealth Evidence Workshop and the NIH mHealth Training Institutes were both designed to address and further develop this scientific approach to mHealth.
移动医疗（mHealth）技术有可能对健康研究、医疗保健和健康结果产生重大影响，但技术的指数级增长速度超过了科学的发展速度。本文概述了两项旨在增强移动医疗科学的举措。mHealth 证据研讨会利用专家小组确定了 mHealth 研究的最佳方法。NIH mHealth 培训学院解决了 mHealth 研究中许多学术和技术领域之间的隔阂，是努力建设该领域跨学科研究能力的举措。这两个举措都旨在满足美国和国际上对高质量移动医疗研究日益增长的需求。移动医疗需要一种坚实的、跨学科的科学方法，将与技术进步相关的快速变化与严格的评估方法结合起来。mHealth 证据研讨会和 NIH mHealth 培训学院的设计目的都是为了解决这个问题，并进一步发展移动医疗的科学方法。
