ucsf informatics day 2014 - michael blum, "digital health"

Center for Digital Health Innovation at UCSF

San Francisco, January 10, 2014

UCSF Informatics Day

Digital Health

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Digital Health - convergence

• Eric Topol - digital technologies, social networking, mobile connectivity and bandwidth, increasing computing power and the data universe converging with wireless sensors, genomics, imaging, and health information systems to creatively destroy medicine as we know it

• Rock Health further explains that digital health encompasses both Health 2.0 (B2C) and Healthcare IT (B2B).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Health

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Health

Center for Digital Health Innovation at UCSF 3


AVC Informatics

CMIO - Care Delivery IT

Data - EDW and Analytics

CDHI - Digital Health Innovation


Digital technologies, mobility, and Social Media have fundamentally transformed how we communicate

• 121 billion minutes on social media sites in one month (July 2012)

• 230,060 person-years spent on-line

• 39 hours on-line per month

We expect to be mobile and connected!


Incredible connected digital health devices


The context: Interest in digital health is growing

186 companies funded >2M in 2013


…And little involvement from medicine

186 companies funded >2M in 2013


The Fairy Tale


The Reality


• Public-private partnership to accelerate digital health innovation at UCSF and beyond

• Supporting faculty, staff, and students in evaluating and developing digital health concepts

• Collaborating with external entrepreneurs and industry partners to validate and enhance digital health products


Focus


• External collaboration• Demo days

• 60 start-ups evaluated • 3 active projects

• Partnerships

http://www.voalte.com/


http://cdhi.ucsf.edu

Questions?

ucsf informatics day 2014 - michael blum, "digital health"

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