Speakers
Andy Coravos
CEO, Elektra Labs
Fellow, Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science
Co-founder, Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)
Jen Goldsack, MS, MBA
Interim Executive Director, DiMe
Portfolio, Strategy & Ops, HealthMode
Topic
Introducing the Digital Medicine Society
Keywords
Digital medicine; Mobile health; Digital technologies; Wearable health devices; Connected devices; Cybersecurity
Key Points
- Digital medicine is a rapidly evolving field that is by nature multidisciplinary and introduces new considerations for the healthcare community.
- The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) sits at the intersection of two communities: healthcare and technology. The Society is helping to move the field of digital medicine forward by developing a common language for diverse stakeholders from engineers and ethicists to payers and providers.
- The U.S. healthcare system has strong protections for patients’ biospecimens like blood or genomic data, but what about digital specimens?
Discussion Themes
Are digital medical technologies worthy of the trust we place in them?
Should there be a Hippocratic Oath for manufacturers, organizations, and individuals delivering care through connected medical devices?
Read more about the emerging field of digital medicine and learn more about the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), the professional home for those who practice and develop products in the digital era of medicine.
Tags
#DigitalMedicine, #pctGR, @Collaboratory1, @_DiMeSociety