Jo Masterson to Speak at ICIMH 2025
Unlocking the Potential of Digital Health Programs for Whole Person Health: Opportunities and Challenges
Digital Health devices and programs such as smart watches and health apps, enhance whole person health by empowering individuals to actively manage and improve their physical, mental, and social well-being through personalized and technology-driven approaches. These programs offer many advantages, especially in supporting a whole person health approach by regularly monitoring health metrics and enhancing patient engagement and education.
However, several key challenges affect their implementation and effectiveness, including data integration and interoperability, inconsistencies in physiological measurements from wearable devices, privacy, regulatory and ethical issues.
To address these challenges, this proposed symposium will provide the ICIMH attendees with an overview of current digital health solutions, discuss their role in supporting whole person health, and explore strategies for overcoming barriers to effective implementation.
In this session four speakers will highlight the importance of Digital Health Programs on whole person health. Dr. Eric Markvicka from University of Nebraska-Lincoln will provide an overview of multimodal wearable devices to measure physiologic outcomes in the context of whole person health. Ms. Jo Masterson, from 2Morrow will describe a Behavioral Digital Health Program for Individuals to manage pain. Dr. Zhongming Liu from Regents of the University of Michigan will focus on utilizing wearable devices for brain and body measurements to inform diagnostics and treatments for chronic conditions affecting both mental and physical health. Dr. Stephen Voida from the University of Colorado Boulder will discuss Trust and Privacy issues in Using Adolescents' Data from wearable devices. Dr. Emrin Horgusluoglu from NCCIH will moderate the general discussion.