Digital Health Initiative

The Digital Health Initiative (DHI) aims to transform health and health care for patients, their families, and their health care teams by cultivating a thriving research community of digital healthcare pioneers. DHI leverages world-renowned expertise from the GApp Lab and ReImagine EHR in playful engagement, standards-based electronic health record interoperability, and participatory design to catalyze research in engaging digital health innovations.

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Mar 14, 2024

Apps, AI, and the Future of Health Take Center Stage at DHI Symposium

More than a hundred scientists met to start new collaborations, swap resources and knowledge, and share the latest details of in-progress projects. The tools they're building have the potential to...

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Nov 22, 2023

Protecting Kids From Utah’s Worsening Dust Pollution

Nearly every day in every corner of Utah, young athletes train or compete in the outdoors, breathing in air that may be, at times, laden with fine particulate matter, dust...

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Nov 15, 2023

Can Electronic Brain Training Games Relieve "Brain Fog" from Long Covid?

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Nov 14, 2023

Homegrown Virtual Reality Advances Heath Care in Nursing and Beyond

Utilizing virtual reality (VR) to help train health care providers and students, as well as treat patients, makes perfect sense in our digital world.

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Nov 13, 2023

Digital Tools for Doctors Quadruple Rate of Lifesaving Lung Cancer Screen

A highly effective lung cancer screen could prevent up to a fifth of lung cancer deaths, but is underused nationwide. Researchers at University of Utah Health have designed new digital...

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Oct 31, 2023

Fitness Devices Leverage Consumer Privacy to Optimize Health

When you use a wearable device to track your health or fitness, do you control your sensitive information? Or is the technology actually using you? Despite being a Certified Information...

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The Digital Health Initiative’s mission is to transform health and health care for patients, their families, and their health care teams by cultivating a thriving research community of digital healthcare pioneers. Your contribution increases the development of digital health innovations, and bolsters the success of current and prospective faculty members.

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