Digital and Personalized Health RAG Research Overview

The ubiquitous use of digital health for disease management requires rigorous research to develop and deploy evidence-based digital health interventions and platforms. Research is needed to better understand who benefits from digital health, under what conditions and situations digital health is needed, which technologies are best suited to use with digital health, and how those technologies are accepted. Nearly 100 CHOP investigators are engaged in research developing and testing digital health technology to improve the care of patients.

DPH RAG membership includes those on the front lines of this research, such as CHOP-based and other local researchers interested in or conducting digital health research, as well as other stakeholders such as information services, the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics Bioinformatics group, digital health administration, and project leaders and coordinators.

Membership from multiple disciplines and roles reflects the necessity of agile team science to develop, deploy, and test mobile technologies for improving health outcomes. To coalesce researchers and stakeholders to advance digital health science, the RAG provides a forum for educational and networking opportunities to enhance knowledge of digital health and develop potential collaborations both within and outside the CHOP and University of Pennsylvania campuses. In addition, the DPH RAG serves as a critical liaison with the CHOP Research Institute and hospital administration on the prioritization of resources to enhance and expand digital health research and its implementation in clinical practice.