We recently talked about strategies that clinicians and developers can use to make apps focused on behavioral change more successful.

In many ways, though, these lessons are based on a trial-by-error approach to development.

More needs to be done, we’d argue, to improve the current research body of behavior change. At the recent mHealth Summit, there were a number of events that touched on this need.

Taking a step back, there were three prominent themes:

• Researchers need ways to study technology
• Researchers need to work in interdisciplinary teams
• We need new ways of capturing information

Here, we’ll explore how each of these ideas can help drive the development of a stronger evidence base for the use of mhealth tools to drive behavior change.

Read more: http://www.imedicalapps.com/2014/01/patient-behaviors-challenges-mhealth-research/

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