Chen Cindy, Bradford Laura R, Epstein Melissa A, Gossey J Travis, Mansour Mohammad N, O'Connor Christy M, Tschinkel Brian J, Campion Thomas R
Information Technologies and Services Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
Office of General Counsel, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2025 Jun 10;2025:134-140. eCollection 2025.
Federal- and state-level governance as well as local institutional oversight are changing rapidly to address the accelerated growth in the usage of digital health technologies (DHT) -such as apps, wearables, and websites-to enable clinical and translational research. While studies have described frameworks for assessing and/or implementing individual DHTs, to our knowledge there are none describing how to implement and support multiple DHTs at an academic medical center (AMC). A multi-disciplinary team including information technology, institutional review board, legal, and privacy professionals identified 33 items to evaluate as part of onboarding studies using DHTs. In a one-year period at one AMC, we applied the novel instrument to review 98 requests for research (93) and non-research (5) use of DHTs. The 33-item instrument may be valuable to researchers and practitioners in other settings seeking to scale institutional support for DHTs.
联邦和州层面的治理以及地方机构监督正在迅速变化,以应对数字健康技术(DHT)(如应用程序、可穿戴设备和网站)使用的加速增长,从而推动临床和转化研究。虽然已有研究描述了评估和/或实施单个DHT的框架,但据我们所知,尚无研究描述如何在学术医疗中心(AMC)实施和支持多种DHT。一个由信息技术、机构审查委员会、法律和隐私专业人员组成的多学科团队确定了33项内容,作为使用DHT进行入职研究的一部分进行评估。在一家AMC的一年时间里,我们使用这一新颖的工具审查了98项DHT研究(93项)和非研究(5项)用途的申请。对于其他寻求扩大机构对DHT支持的机构中的研究人员和从业者而言,这份包含33项内容的工具可能具有重要价值。