Demystifying Digital Health Research Jargon

When working with researchers and clinicians to design trials that include digital elements, it's important to speak the same language. Just as clinical lingo must be precise so that everyone understands its meaning, adding digital elements to a clinical trial...

Custom App Development Vs. No-Code Apps: When to Use And Why?

  When a healthcare system or pharmaceutical company wants to create a digital health tool, whether a mobile health patient app, clinical decision-making tool, or a remote patient monitoring system to collect research data from wearables or remote sensors, often the...

Academic Medical Centers: The Increasing Importance of Translational Research

The phrase “translational research” often refers to pharmaceutical companies moving from basic clinical research into drug development. Sometimes pharma companies do this research themselves, and sometimes they license compounds from Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), with technology transfer deals bringing revenue...

Post-Covid Digital Health Research Trends

Rarely has the world been forced to remake itself in quite the same way as what the Covid-19 pandemic has done. For more than a year now, every sphere of our modern life has had to compromise in ways that...

Remote Research in the Era of COVID-19

To minimize opportunities for spreading the novel coronavirus, the FDA and NIH have suspended in-person interactions in research studies and clinical trials. The new rules mean that most clinical and behavioral research studies may no longer be conducted in person...

When Digital Health Research Meets the Real World

You just finished presenting the results of your research project at the annual conference for your field. Your novel digital health intervention demonstrated a meaningful and robust impact on outcomes. This is a big moment; you’ve worked hard to get...