The Toronto Health Library Association (THLA) and Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto (HSICT) co-hosted a free educational event on June 11 2014 about mobile resources called You CAN Take it With You <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Participants had the opportunity to learn from experienced mobile resource creators about what goes in to developing, rolling out and evaluating mobile apps, and a chance to try out a variety of mobile devices in the Petting Zoo.<\/p>\n
Michelle Hamilton Page<\/b>
\nManager, Social Media at CAMH.<\/p>\n
Michelle Hamilton-Page, the Manger for Social Media at CAMH, gave a very interesting talk about mobile health information resources \/ interventions she has been involved in creating, considerations in deciding to create a mobile resource and what kind of mobile resource, and answered questions from the audience.<\/p>\n
Our panel discussed apps that they have developed, why they wanted to create them, three very different development processes and the outcomes for the new apps, and answered audience questions.<\/p>\n
Ronald MacPherson, MLIS<\/b>
\nUniversity Health Network; a developer for ‘FCR: Find Cancer Resources’ & ‘FRR: Find Rehab Resources’ (upcoming)<\/p>\n
Marisa Cicero, MSW & Amanda Hignell, MSW<\/b>
\nSt. Michael’s Hospital; developers for the ‘My Baby and Me Passport’ app<\/p>\n
Melanie Yeung, MHSc<\/b>
\nCentre for Global eHealth Innovation; a developer of ‘bant’ and ‘Medly’.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nPetting Zoo:<\/h3>\n
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iPads, iPhones, and Android and Windows devices were available to \u2018play\u2019 with, having been loaded with a selection of health and medical apps. Participants had the opportunity to compare devices and apps and to consider app evaluation criteria from several sources. <\/p>\n
Big thanks to all of our speakers, the organizing committee, everyone who participated, and to CHLA\/ABSC for the grant that allowed us to record the presentations! <\/p>\n
Mobile Apps Video 1<\/b><\/p>\n