The Center for Digital Health

The Center for Digital Health at the Icahn Institute in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai serves as a hub of innovation where our team of clinical researchers, engineers, product designers, data scientists and clinicians works collaboratively with academia and industry to create digital platforms that enable large scale and ongoing participation from patients and consumers.

We derive meaningful evidence from the high-dimensional, real world data collected on genetically diverse populations and individuals to inform best research and clinical practice. Our innovation and dedication is fueled by a shared goal to empower and engage patients with digital technology for improved individual health outcomes.

Recent News

"Smartphones could become the ubiquitous tool that brings clinical research to the masses" - CDH Director

Center for Digital Health Director Yvonne Chan, MD, PhD, FACEP, explores how digital health is revolutionizing clinical trials.

Clinical data: 9 experts reveal the biggest challenges

Center for Digital Health Director Yvonne Chan, MD, PhD, FACEP, on the biggest challenges of collecting clinical data.

The most effective clinical trial data collection technologies - INDUSTRY VOICES

Yvonne Chan, MD, PHD, FACEP, on clinical trial data collection technologies

Two years in, what has Apple ResearchKit accomplished?

In March 2015, Apple promised to change the way medical research could be done. It launched ResearchKit, which could turn millions of iPhones around the world into a “powerful tool for medical research,” the company said at the time.

Apple's Medical Research App Just Proved That It Really Works

One of the biggest challenges in the digital health space is proving that groundbreaking new technologies actually live up to the accuracy standards of tested, tried, and true “old school” methods.

How Researchers Used A Smartphone To Study Asthma

"The Asthma Mobile Health study represents the coming together of academia and industry to benefit from the ubiquity of smartphones and harness the power of citizen science to modernize the clinical research process."

Latest Publications

Chan, Y.F, Bot, B.M., Zweig, M, Tignor, N., Ma, W., Suver,C.,... Wang, P. (2018). The asthma mobile health study, smartphone data collected using ResearchKit. Nature Scientific Data.

Genes,N., Violante, S., Rogers, L., Schadt, E.E., & Chan, Y.F. (2018). From smartphone to ehr: integrating patient-generated health data. nPJ Digital Medicine.

Chan, Y.F., Wang, P., Rogers, L., Tignor, N., Zweig, M., Herschman, S.G.,...Schadt, E.E. (2017). The asthma mobile health study, a large-scale clinical observational study using ResearchKit. Nature Biotechnology, 35, 354-362. doi:10.1038/nbt.3826

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