Digital Health Symposium

The First Annual Health Technology Symposium was held at the UNC Health Sciences Library on February 23, 2018. The theme of the event was “Digital Health Everywhere”, and the symposium spanned a wide range of digital health topics. Speakers included UNC researchers, students, and library staff, as well as representatives from industry, government, and non-profits. Topics ranged from app development for different user groups, novel devices for research, ethics in digital health work, and more.

Digital health is a growing area of research, clinical care, and education. New devices, mobile apps, software, and data sources are radically changing all of these areas as we move to the future of medicine. Traditional health technology hasn’t always included areas like the humanities and social sciences, the international context, cultural differences, and the interplay between academic work and the world of industry and government. The symposium seeked to explore these areas, showcasing the library’s efforts in the field, and encouraging the expanded definition of digital health.

Slide presentations, available as Adobe PDF files, have been linked below.

Schedule for Symposium

(Times and topics are subject to change)

Time	Presentation
8:30 AM	Registration/Refreshments
9:00 AM	Opening Remarks Elaine Westbrooks, MLIS Vice Provost of University Libraries & University Librarian University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Javed Mostafa, PhD Director, Carolina Health Informatics Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:30 AM	Heart Rate Variability For Monitoring Mind And Body Jason Moore CEO, Elite HRV
10:00 AM	Augmented Reality Games for UNC Children’s Hospital Richard Preston Hobbs III, MD Director, UNC School of Medicine Technology in Medical Education Program Director, Medical Student Education in Pediatrics Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Academic Hospitalist University of North Carolina School of Medicine Madison Walls Project Manager, UNC Emerging Technologies Lab
10:30 AM	Break
10:45 AM	Digital Health Rhetoric, a Patient’s Perspective Sarah Singer PhD Candidate Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:15 AM	NC Farmworker Health Assessment Application Allison Lipscomb, MPH Farmworker Health Program Data Specialist NC DHHS Office of Rural Health
11:45 AM	Lunch/Posters/Live Demos Lunch will be provided Demo participants scheduled: CHAI Core – Digital health interventions and research CrossComm – AR Headset Demo Elite HRV – HRV device and software Fleet Feet – fit id NextGen Interactions – YOU by Sharecare Kenan Science Library – 3D printing and VR demo Health Sciences Library – Digital Health Device Collection
12:30 PM	New Frontiers of Digital Health Research Robert Furberg, MBA \| PhD Senior Clinical Informaticist & Research Technologist RTI International
1:00 PM	Digital Health Initiatives at UNC Health Sciences Library Brian Moynihan, MBA \| MSIS \| MA Head, Health Technology and Informatics Health Sciences Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1:15 PM	Virtual Reality and Health Jason Jerald, PhD Co-Founder & Principal Consultant NextGen Interactions
1:45 PM	Closing Remarks Nandita S. Mani, PhD Associate University Librarian for the Health Sciences & Director Health Sciences Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2-3:00 PM	Networking

7:30 am - 5:00 pm

Digital Health Symposium

Schedule for Symposium

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