Presenter: Md Mobashir Hasan Shandhi, PhD
Organizers: Md Mobashir Hasan Shandhi, PhD, Hayoung Jeong, Will Ke Wang, Yihang Jiang, Jessilyn Pearl Dunn, PhD
Duration: 90 minutes
Digital Health is poised to not only make it possible to rapidly detect, prevent, and manage many diseases, but also ensure equitable healthcare access. Healthcare providers have demonstrated interest in integrating digital health tools into existing workflows for longitudinal and remote monitoring of patients. However, technological progress and effective implementation have been impeded because reference standards, transparency, and open resources are emerging more slowly. In this workshop, we will introduce and discuss digital health technologies and data in the context of digital biomarkers used for physiological and mental health assessment and tracking. In addition, we will describe an open-source initiative that is addressing existing informatics challenges directly, the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (DBDP). We will describe the utility of this platform for easily accessing, extracting, storing, and analyzing digital health data and how this toolbox can enable the incorporation of digital health data from a diverse set of personal wearable devices for physiological and mental health monitoring. We will present case studies to demonstrate the potential, challenges, and opportunities of existing consumer wearable devices and algorithms in this realm. Finally, we will conclude by sharing results from our recent pilot study exploring the application of augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) tools for meditation used in conjunction with consumer wearable devices to monitor and track mental health digital biomarkers before, during, and after AR-assisted meditation – technology which has the potential to revolutionize mental healthcare.