Cities to join mobile health initiative

Public health programs in five U.S. metro areas will join with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to leverage mobile health technology developed under ONC's Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge to reduce their residents' chances of heart attack and stroke. The initiative is a public-private effort led by HHS with a goal of using clinical and community-based public health programs to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes nationwide by 2017. Chicago, San Diego, Baltimore, Tulsa and Philadelphia are launching campaigns.