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This has been a monumental year for science and innovation in healthcare. From the approval of life-saving vaccines to unprecedented growth in digital health, 2021 will be defined as an inflection point for healthcare.  It has also been a tr…

Last week, the Council of Europe gave the green light to a new, harmonised regulation on health technology assessments* across EU member states that will ultimately simplify submission procedures for health technology companies and improve a…

From strategic partnerships with the health innovation hub of the German Federal Ministry of health (hih) and our collaborative community that we host with FDA participation, to the Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community (DATAcc)…

The field of digital medicine continues to experience explosive growth. In drug development, this is reflected in DiMe’s Library of Digital Endpoints, which has increased from 38 sponsors collecting 108 unique endpoints in July 2019 to 69 sp…

Innovative technologies and digital health solutions offer enormous possibilities to support sweeping improvements in the safety, effectiveness, and equity of Veteran care across the nation. From preventing diabetic limb loss to helping visu…

Digital measures offer the promise of transforming how we define health and evaluate treatment. To realize this potential, we must prioritize resources to focus on digital measures that are most meaningful to patients and most informative. W…

When we launched DiMe nearly two years ago in May of 2019, none of us could have predicted the ways in which our world has changed. As we reach “the end of the beginning” of our war against COVID, expectations remain as high as ever for d…

It has been a privilege to witness the power of DiMe’s members to collectively advance the field of digital medicine over the past (less than!) two years. From the multidisciplinary creation of The Playbook, to policy and regulation contr…

Just over a year ago, we launched our crowdsourced library of digital endpoints, aiming to shine a light on digital measures being used in industry-sponsored trials and galvanize the field around specific measures to speed adoption. Duri…

In a year when a global pandemic has left many hospitals strained beyond their means, many clinicians have embraced using fitness-trackers and other devices to monitor patients’ health remotely. Researchers, too, have had to get creative for…

Patient engagement can take many forms — from in-person workshops to virtual engagements, like surveys, interviews, discussion boards, UX testing, and beyond — but the driving force is the same: to learn directly from patients. It’s importan…