Announcing BWH’s First Digital Health Expo on June 30

Digital health is everywhere in Boston – on the news, in the lab next door and, hopefully, on your smartphone.

The healthcare landscape has been populated by new innovations: analytics, devices, data, wearable technologies, electronic health records and more – and people can’t stop talking about it. But it’s more than the latest trend; digital health is here to stay for so many reasons:

• It has the power to transform healthcare by harnessing cutting-edge technology to reduce inefficiencies, lower costs and help providers deliver better patient care.
• It connects clinical innovators to the business world – startups, investors, students and big industry – and allows them to work together in search of solutions to everyday healthcare problems.
• To me, the most compelling reason is that digital health affects everyone.

Thinking back on the past few iHub Innovation Series, we saw participants from many different backgrounds: doctors, nurses, social workers and researchers across clinical specialties and departments. Our innovators are working on solutions across diseases and throughout the entire continuum of care, from better ways to manage clinical trials for asthma and tools supporting patients with breast cancer, to apps to help doctors predict opioid overdoses and point-of-care infertility screening – and so much more.