Digital Technology Innovation Program

Addressing healthcare challenges with digital solution creation, validation, dissemination, and implementation.

The Digital Technology Innovation (DTI) Program focuses on addressing healthcare challenges through digital health innovation. We evaluate and advance knowledge in the rapidly growing area of digital health transformation, leveraging technology to improve health and wellness. 

Innovative digital health tools include wearable devices, virtual reality, mobile health apps, patient-reported data, and smartphone-connected medical devices such as incentive spirometers and blood glucose monitors. Supporting technologies like predictive algorithms also play a critical role in this transformation.

Despite their potential, approximately 70% percent of complex, large-scale digital health programs fail to meet their pre-set goals due to factors such as suboptimal strategies to leverage technology in an integrated way, inadequate collaboration between IT and lines of business, lack of expertise to lead digitization initiatives, rising costs/limited budget, poor user experience design, or the inability to experiment quickly and iterate on solutions.

The DTI program acknowledges the transformative impact of digital health applications on modern medicine and healthcare interactions. Central to the study of digital health is addressing the “digital divide” by promoting equitable access to and adoption of these technologies, particularly in rural and under-resourced communities.

Leadership

Scientific Director, Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD 
Digital Integration Lead, Rubina F. Rizvi, MD, PhD 

Core Member 

Project Manager, Marley Crews-Hill, PMP