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Through the Looking Glass: Considerations for health data privacy amid COVID-19 and beyond

The impact of COVID-19 has been devastating, yet we have witnessed global unity against a common enemy. Day after day, healthcare and other essential workers continue to put their lives on the line to save others, while individuals sacrific…

If you want to improve US healthcare during COVID-19, submit a public comment

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, digital technologies are rapidly being adopted to support health, healthcare, and health research. Researchers and public health officials across the country are deploying wearable technologies to seek early…

Jennifer Goldsack

Knowledge Sharing at Lightning Speed: Introducing DiMe’s New Forum for Rapid Collaboration

At the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), we connect all members of the digital medicine community. Communication and collaboration is at the core of everything we do — our members actively and regularly connect with each other through our Slack…

Advancing Digital Medicine to Optimize Human Health: 2019 in Review

The end of the year is the perfect time to ask the question: “How are we doing?” I can be a tough critic, but there is no doubt that the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) is making a significant impact on the field of digital medicine…

Jennifer Goldsack

How Can Digital Data and Technologies Improve Health?

On Monday, December 16, DiMe submitted a letter in response to the request for input on the initial vision for Cures 2.0 legislation proposed by U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI). The 21st Century Cures Act…

Jennifer Goldsack

Digital Health, Digital Medicine, Digital Therapeutics (DTx): What’s the difference?

Digital health products have become integral to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of health and disease. Consumers rely on digital health apps to improve their focus, track their fitness, and optimize their wellbeing. Cli…

Jennifer Goldsack, Megan Coder, Chandana Fitzgerald, Natalie Navar-Mattingly, Andy Coravos, and Ashish Atreja

What it Takes to Lead in the New Field of Digital Medicine: Being Terrified, Apparently…

I recently froze for a solid five minutes over my computer, hesitating over submitting a comment on a public docket. There’s lots here. Let’s try and unpack it. First, what is a public docket and why was I commenting on it? When a Federal Agen…

Jennifer Goldsack

Digital Medicine Standards 101

One of the biggest complaints in healthcare is the lack of interoperability. But the nitty-gritty of how to achieve interoperability is messy. Standards are an acronym soup. What is SNOMED, LOINC and DICOM? How is HL7 FHIR related to SMART…

Christine Manta

DiMe at DEF CON 27: What We Can Learn from the Security Research Community

At the BioHacking Village at DEF CON this weekend, the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) won the Research Competition after pitching our vision for the future of digital medicine to a panel of judges from several industry companies: Abbott, BD, …

Jennifer Goldsack

Lessons Learned Implementing Apple ResearchKit for a Study at Mount Sinai

Apple ResearchKit is already accelerating research by attracting huge numbers of people to participate in medical research for the first time. In this blog we share our experience using Active Tasks included in ResearchKit to assess cognitive…

The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) Manifesto: A Commitment to Achievement

The success of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) will be measured not by our work, but by our impact on advancing digital medicine to optimize human health. So, together, we must ask ourselves: what are we working to achieve? When we fou…

Jennifer Goldsack

Laying the Foundation: Defining Digital Medicine

The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) was founded on a very deliberate definition of digital medicine, developed by a diverse and interdisciplinary group of experts (thank you to our esteemed Strategic Advisory Board and Scientific Leadership Bo…

Jennifer Goldsack

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