The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) announced it is partnering with Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS), Duke University, Google Fitbit, Morse Clinics, North Carolina Central University, Ōura, ProofPilot, Triangle CERSI and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
The partnership aims to use data collected from consumer wearables to lower opioid use disorder (OUD) fatalities by creating...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and Google Health launched a free online course for medical professionals, researchers, administrators and innovators to learn the fundamentals of generative AI, large language models (LLMs) and the technologies' use cases in healthcare.
The Generative AI for Healthcare course gives stakeholders an understanding of LLMs and their applications in healthcare....
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) announced the release of The Playbook: Pediatric Digital Medicine, an industry guideline aimed at addressing the special challenges of pediatric digital health innovation and creating solutions that maximize care for children.
To counter, what it calls, a lack of investment and barriers to innovation in the pediatric digital health space, DiMe is partnering...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) announced a collaboration with Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI), ZS Associates and other industry groups to improve the development and implementation of integrated evidence plans (IEPs) for digital health products.
The goal of the collaboration is to align best practices pertaining to streamlining the path to commercialization for digital health...
Children and young people throughout the United States continue to face some of the biggest hurdles to receiving timely and appropriate healthcare. As incidence rates of mental health and complex medical conditions rise, the majority of treatment-seeking children face strained health systems, limited affordable treatment options and care that is not personalized to their unique social, cultural...
As vice president, Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot, intending to accelerate progress in cancer treatments and accessibility, and as president, Biden reignited the Moonshot last year.
Earlier this year, as part of the Moonshot, the Department of Health and Human Services launched CancerX, a public-private partnership effort to boost cancer innovation in the U.S.
The Digital Medicine Society...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and a suite of digital health and pharma players partnered to launch a toolkit aimed at improving diversity, equity and inclusion in clinical trials.
The resources include a guide to each step of a digital clinical trial, shared definitions of terms like "diversity" and "equity," a list of different digital tools that could be used and the potential benefits...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) on Monday revealed four toolkits to help healthcare and life science organizations use data from sensors like wearables and remote patient monitoring systems at scale.
The four toolkits are based on resources derived from the society's Sensor Data Integrations project, which includes organizations like Amazon Web Services, Oracle, the Moffitt Cancer Center,...
Artificial intelligence is being used across the healthcare industry with the goal of delivering care more efficiently and improving outcomes for patients. But if health systems and vendors aren't careful, AI has the potential to support biased decision-making and make equities even worse.
"Algorithmic bias really is the application of an algorithm that compounds existing inequity," Sarah Awan,...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) is teaming up with pharma giants AbbVie, Janssen Research and Development, Novartis, Pfizer and UCB to make nocturnal scratch an endpoint for atopic dermatitis.
Atopic dermatitis, also known as eczema, can lead to nighttime itches and scratching, which impact the quality of a patient's sleep. Recent studies have outlined wearable sensors’ role in helping to...
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