Claudia Tessier is one of the prime leaders in the mobile health field. She is founder and president of the not-for-profit membership organization, mHealth Initiative Inc. (mHI) and previously served as executive director of MoHCA, the Mobile Healthcare Alliance.

TPP: What is the current focus of your organization?
Tessier: mHealth Initiative is the leading organization promoting new communication patterns in healthcare through the use of mobile phones and other mobile devices (mDevices) in order to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Our focus is on the ability of this mHealth phenomenon to enable participatory healthcare, which involves healthy people as well as patients, both wellness and care providers, payers, pharma, researchers and public health as active participants in a healthcare system that is open and transparent.