The mission of the Mobile Health Technology (mHealth) Shared Resource at the Stephenson Cancer Center is to support researchers who use technology to study and intervene upon cancer-related health risk factors and behaviors.

Director, mHealth
Michael Businelle, PhD

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Program Manager
Michela Aguirre
Email: michela-aguirre@ouhsc.edu

The mHealth core provides a wide range of services including: 

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• Support clinical trials and micro-randomized trials

• UX/UI design for mobile applications

• Smartphone applications design and development (i.e. Android, Apple, Microsoft)

• Web-based content management system (CMS) to manage research studies and enroll study participants

• Create various types of ecological momentary assessments (EMAs): Random, daily, participant initiated, geo-fence initiated, sensor initiated 

• Machine learning models and analysis

• GPS tracking and analysis

• Geo-Fencing and analysis

• Governance and risk assessment support

• Application maintenance and support

• Application and device training

The mHealth core uses the Insight Platform to build, test, and launch technology-based mobile health assessments and intervention tools. The versatile Insight platform enables researchers to track momentary changes in key variables from multiple data sources (i.e. phone-based surveys, sensor data, geolocation data) in near real-time and use this information to intitiate interventions.

The mHealth Shared Resource has worked with many institutions including:

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• American Cancer Society 

• Battelle 

• Louisiana State University

• Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center

• Optum Center for Wellbeing

• Rice University

• Stephenson Cancer Center

• University of Alabama - School of Public Health 

• University of Houston

• University of North Texas Health Science Center

• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

• University of Texas Health Science Center - School of Public Health

• Yale School of Medicine