Health research and innovation to help promote heart health and smoking cessation
News Release
Health research and innovation to help promote heart health and smoking cessation
16 June 2014
SAINT JOHN (GNB) – A $225,000 investment in health research will examine the use of mobile technology to manage chronic disease and promote smoking cessation.
Connected Voices is a research project, which will evaluate what impact mHealth – mobile health via smart phones and tablets – has on quitting rates and nicotine dependence for smokers over 12, 24 and 52 weeks. Simultaneously, it will increase understanding of how inter-professional health teams communicate when using information and communication technologies in a rural province.
“This project has great potential to advance the development of mHealth, promote smoking cessation and the management of chronic disease in our province and ultimately support our efforts to build a more sustainable health care system,” said Health Minister Hugh Flemming. “This project demonstrates our province’s ability to generate promising medical interventions that will help all New Brunswick patients, their families and communities.”
