Digital health: data science in practice

Digital technologies have been driving a revolution in healthcare and are increasingly become center-stage in our everyday lives. Digital health technologies (DHTs), like wearable devices and mobile medical apps, have great potentials to improve our ability to accurately reveal health status and disease insights, as well as implement treatments. As DHTs often generate huge amounts of very complex data, data science plays a key role in unleashing the DHTs’ power, and a research mindset is critical to uncover novel insights from such data and drive the field forward. In this talk, I will provide a broad introduction to the digital health field, including the technology landscape, the players and stakeholders, as well as applications of data science in the development and application of digital clinical measures. Opportunities are vast in the digital health field to make positive impacts on health and medical outcomes; I will provide practical advice on how one can get involved.