Mentorship and Student-Author Travel Grant for Wireless Health 2012 Conference

快速发展的无线技术和移动的健康（mHealth）领域可能在未来的创新中发挥重要作用，这将有助于将医疗保健转变为更加以个人为中心，重点是预防和健康。然而，这一新兴领域需要从理论概念到大规模实施的进步和创新。 智力优势：该项目将提供资金，使学生能够参加会议。参与的学生将受益于接触计算思维和无线健康技术的进步，这些技术利用实时数据采集和推理来支持即时干预。与此同时，他们还将了解基础科学和工程方面的差距，这些差距需要得到解决，以实现无线技术和移动健康的预期效益。此外，会见领域领导将为学生提供选择和解决需要解决的关键难题的模式。最后，在研讨会期间，与会者将与他们的同学见面，为他们提供一个建立科学网络的机会，这在一个快速发展的领域是如此重要。更广泛的影响：无线和移动的技术可能在各个领域产生重大的社会影响。 有迹象表明，这些领域可能会对医疗保健的革命性变革做出重大贡献，从临床试验到医疗保健服务。这些技术已经在改变个人和群体之间的社会互动。这些技术最重要的潜在好处之一是它们对为服务不足的人群提供医疗保健和教育的影响。 数据表明，移动的技术经常为服务不足的人群提供连接到互联网并与医疗保健系统互动的唯一途径。在该领域工作的学生将有机会加速这些趋势。为了实现这些目标，提议者计划强调征聘妇女和少数民族学生参加专题讨论会。

The rapidly advancing field of wireless technologies and mobile health (mHealth) is likely to play an important role in the future innovations that will help in transforming healthcare to be more individual-centered with a focus on prevention and wellbeing. Yet this nascent field requires advances and innovations ranging from theoretical concepts to large scale implementation. Intellectual Merit: This project will provide funds to enable students to attend the conference. The participating students will benefit from exposure to computational thinking and advances in in wireless health technologies that utilize real-time data acquisition and inference to support just-in-time interventions. At the same time, they will also learn of the gaps in basic science as well as engineering that need to be addressed in order to achieve the anticipated benefits of the wireless technologies and mHealth. In addition, meeting the leaders in the fields will provide the students with models for selecting and addressing the key difficult problems that need to be solved. Finally, during the workshop, the participants will be meeting their fellow students, giving them an opportunity for scientific networking, so important in a rapidly advancing field.Broader Impact: Wireless and mobile technologies are likely to have significant societal impacts in a variety of domains. There are indications that these fields will likely contribute significantly to revolutionizing healthcare, from clinical trials to healthcare delivery. These technologies are already changing the social interactions among individuals and groups. Among the most important potential benefits of these technologies are their impacts on bringing healthcare and education to underserved populations. This is reflected in the data suggesting that mobile technology frequently provides the only way for underserved populations to connect to the Internet and interact with the healthcare system. Students working in the field will have the opportunity to accelerate these trends. To achieve these goals the proposer is planning to emphasize the recruitment of women and minority students to attend the symposium.