The Baltimore City Mobile Health Consensus Conference brought together 112 experts, thought leaders, stakeholders and community leaders from academia, healthcare, business, nonprofit and community organizations, and city government from the greater Baltimore region. Their purpose was to take the first step on a consensus journey to reach a long-term strategic approach for city-wide integrated and sustainable mobile health delivery.
These passionate and committed people shared their mobile health best practices, ideas, solutions, and experiences. They examined how and to whom this type of alternative care can be delivered, funded, and evaluated for impact on health outcomes. They also questioned every aspect of the current mobile health care approach; all aimed at the long-term goal of collaborative mobile health services across the city.
In a post-pandemic world, mobile health providers were eager to expand services and opportunities for access and health equity. Their conversations and collaborations soon raised challenging questions. The Mobile Health Consensus conference was framed to find answers to these questions:
WHAT do our mobile health services look like in Baltimore?
WHO are we serving and not serving?
HOW are the mobile health units being funded?
HOW is mobile health impacting the various health systems?
HOW is communication about patients occurring between mobile teams and the larger healthcare systems?
