Project HealthDesign: a preliminary program-level report.

Advancements in the health information technology that brought personal health records to individuals have opened the door to new insights concerning the cues people use to monitor health in their everyday lives. In order to evaluate the impact of capturing, storing, and integrating these observations of daily living (ODLs) into the clinical care process, Project HealthDesign selected five teams to create and analyze mobile health applications with ODLs in mind. These teams targeted underserved, minority populations with at least two chronic conditions. Using third-party platforms for storage, the teams were expected to bring the ODLs into the clinical workflow through the EHR. ODLs were successfully captured, interpreted and displayed; however technical and policy barriers challenge their integration outside of the mobile application. This paper serves as a preliminary, program-level report distinct from the publication of evaluation results from individual teams.