The UCD Business School CITI Digital Health Consortium
1. The CITI Digital Health
Consortium Initiative
Arlen D Meyers, MD,MBA
Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
&
Jiban Khuntia, PhD
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
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2. What is digital health?
Digital health refers to the application of information and
communications technologies to improve health.
Categories:
Mobile health and Telemedicine
Patient engagement using mobile alerts on medication and communication with
physician
EMR and mobile apps to support post-discharge services such as medication
adherence, education, patient follow-up
New business models (HIE, ACO, Care Transitions, Homes)
Comparative Effectiveness/Appropriateness research
Genomics, metabolomics, proteomics (function, structure and interaction of
genes, proteins, etc.)
Social media in medicine and the Quality/privacy issues
Business intelligence in healthcare and big data analytics
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3. Digital Health Opportunity
Close the gap between technologists and practitioners
Accelerate the development and deployment of digital health
technologies
Education and awareness
Community outreach
Clinical translational research and validation
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4. CITI Digital Health Consortium Initiative
Vision
The CITI-DHC initiative will be an educational and R/D consortium at
the University of Colorado Denver Business School for
offering basic and applied research and outreach to generate
digital health solutions for our members.
establishing educational curriculum that integrates
entrepreneurship, healthcare, and digital technologies
developing the next generation of digital health platforms and
validating their clinical functionality and value
Members include entrepreneurs, service providers, health providers,
researchers, educators, industry, investors and other digital health
innovation stakeholders
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6. CITI Digital Health Consortium Initiative
Mission
The mission of the CITI-DHC is to accelerate digital health
transformation through research and recommend solutions to the
multiple challenges surrounding the design, development, and
integration of information technologies into the health care system.
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7. CITI-DH Consortium Initiative
Objectives
Education, providing digital health education members of the CU
community
Research, designing and developing digital health products and
services that provide patient defined value
Translational research, getting digital health ideas from design to
adoption and use in the community
Validation, designing and executing digital health clinical trials to
validate the products during development and after launch as part of
post market surveillance
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8. CITI-DH Consortium Initiative
Academic entities
UCD Business school CITI
UCD Business school Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship
CU affiliated hospitals
Anschutz Medical Campus Program in Bio-innovation and
Entrepreneurship
CCTSI
Professional Schools/Graduate School
School of Public Health
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9. CITI-DH Consortium Initiative
Proposed Governance and Structure
CITI DIRECTOR &
GOVERNANING BOARD
Executive Director
CITI-DH ADVISORY BOARD
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
Affiliate Organizations
& Research Partners
Assoc. Director/s
Members, Experts and
Teaching Partners
Program Manager/s
Areas
Education Program
and Development
Research and
Services
Applied Research &
Clinical Validation
Accelerator
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Business School
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