Using Digital Health Technology to Better Generate Evidence and Deliver Evidence-Based Care

Abhinav Sharma; Robert A Harrington; Mark B McClellan; Mintu P Turakhia; Zubin J Eapen; Steven Steinhubl; James R Mault; Maulik D Majmudar; Lothar Roessig; Karen J Chandross; Eric M Green; Bakul Patel; Andrew Hamer; Jeffrey Olgin; John S Rumsfeld; Matthew T Roe; Eric D Peterson

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2018.03.523

Using Digital Health Technology to Better Generate Evidence and Deliver Evidence-Based Care

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Jun 12;71(23):2680-2690. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.03.523.

Authors

Abhinav Sharma¹, Robert A Harrington², Mark B McClellan³, Mintu P Turakhia⁴, Zubin J Eapen⁵, Steven Steinhubl⁶, James R Mault⁷, Maulik D Majmudar⁸, Lothar Roessig⁹, Karen J Chandross¹⁰, Eric M Green¹¹, Bakul Patel¹², Andrew Hamer¹³, Jeffrey Olgin¹⁴, John S Rumsfeld¹⁵, Matthew T Roe⁵, Eric D Peterson⁵

Affiliations

¹ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
³ Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, and Center for Digital Health, Stanford, California.
⁵ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
⁶ Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla, California.
⁷ Qualcomm Life, San Diego, California.
⁸ Healthcare Transformation Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁹ Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany.
¹⁰ Sanofi, Bridgewater, New Jersey.
¹¹ MyoKardia, South San Francisco, California.
¹² U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland.
¹³ Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California.
¹⁴ University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.
¹⁵ American College of Cardiology, Washington, DC.

PMID: 29880129
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.03.523

Abstract

As we enter the information age of health care, digital health technologies offer significant opportunities to optimize both clinical care delivery and clinical research. Despite their potential, the use of such information technologies in clinical care and research faces major data quality, privacy, and regulatory concerns. In hopes of addressing both the promise and challenges facing digital health technologies in the transformation of health care, we convened a think tank meeting with academic, industry, and regulatory representatives in December 2016 in Washington, DC. In this paper, we summarize the proceedings of the think tank meeting and aim to delineate a framework for appropriately using digital health technologies in healthcare delivery and research.

Keywords: clinical trial conduct; digital health technology; healthcare delivery; think tank meeting.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Biomedical Technology / methods*
Biomedical Technology / trends
Clinical Trials as Topic / methods
Congresses as Topic* / trends
Delivery of Health Care / methods*
Delivery of Health Care / trends
District of Columbia
Evidence-Based Medicine / methods*
Evidence-Based Medicine / trends
Humans
Telemedicine / methods*
Telemedicine / trends

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001114/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States