Navigating the Digital Health Ecosystem to Bridge the Gap from Innovation to Transformation: A NODE. Health Perspective on Digital Evidence

Brian Van Winkle; Yauheni Solad; Nitin Vaswani; Benjamin I Rosner

doi:10.1159/000500194

Navigating the Digital Health Ecosystem to Bridge the Gap from Innovation to Transformation: A NODE. Health Perspective on Digital Evidence

Digit Biomark. 2019 Jun 25;3(2):83-91. doi: 10.1159/000500194. eCollection 2019 May-Aug.

Authors

Brian Van Winkle¹, Yauheni Solad², Nitin Vaswani¹, Benjamin I Rosner³

Affiliations

¹ NODE. Health, Lewes, Delaware, USA.
² Digital Health and Telemedicine, Yale New Haven Health, Stratford, Connecticut, USA.
³ Division of Hospital Medicine and the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.

Abstract

This article examines the challenges of broad adoption of digital solutions within the healthcare industry and why evidence is so critical for advancement of digital health technologies. It then illustrates how emerging nonprofits are positioned to help the ecosystem overcome these challenges and to catalyze the process of matching the right evidence-based solution to the right clinical challenge.

Keywords: Clinical trials; Digital health; Evidence.

Publication types

Review