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11/10/2022

Digital Therapeutics Summit Held at Dartmouth

Article Excerpt: Nearly 175 people representing the digital health and pharmaceutical industries, health care systems, clinicians, scientists, investors, Dartmouth students and faculty, and government officials representing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gathered on Dartmouth’s campus November 2 for daylong discussions centered on digital therapeutics. Hosted by Geisel School of Medicine’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) and Dartmouth’s Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship, the program provided an overview of the science and clinical practice of digital therapeutics, the current and anticipated paths to their global deployment, and a vision for the future. This is the first time these groups have come together in conversations hosted by an academic institution about the digital health landscape and may well be viewed as a seminal moment in the rapidly developing field.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/2fnhbyxa

Article Source: Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine News

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02/07/2022

Study Finds Unexpected Benefits of ‘Drug Checking’ Programs

Article Excerpt: A recent study has found that so-called “drug checking” programs have unexpected benefits, allowing public health programs to reach and work with people who use drugs who would otherwise not access services such as HIV testing. Drug checking refers to analyzing illegal drugs, or prescription drugs not acquired from a pharmacy, that people have used or are about to use. There are various technologies available for drug checking, but the ultimate goal is to reduce overdoses and other health risks associated with an increasingly contaminated illicit drug supply.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/3hcj2ruw

Article Source: NC State News

Posted in: Methodologies & Analytics // Tagged: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
02/01/2022

James O’Malley Named to Endowed Professorship

Article Excerpt: James O’Malley, MS, PhD, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of Biomedical Data Science at the Geisel School of Medicine, has been named to the Peggy Y. Thomson Professorship in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. “Dr. O’Malley has been an exceptional leader at Geisel in advancing statistical methodology as a thrust of his own research program and as a collaborator in support of the research programs of many of our other investigators,” says Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. “He has also taken a very active role in educating future researchers in applied statistical methods. I’m delighted to recognize James’ achievements by appointing him to this named professorship.’

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/tyzek3ns

Article Source: Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine News

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11/17/2021

Dartmouth Study Reveals Flaws in Statistical Modeling Approach Used in Health Services Research

Article Excerpt: Findings from a new study conducted jointly at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and published in Health Services Research, highlight the statistical drawbacks of one form of analysis commonly used in health services research while demonstrating the benefits of another. “An ongoing goal of health services research has been to understand the reasons for variation in healthcare delivery, whether it’s between physicians, hospitals, or geographic areas—and how that variation may contribute to disparities in healthcare across different types of patients (defined by characteristics such as their sex, race, or socio-economic status),” says James O’Malley, MS, PhD, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of biomedical data science at the Geisel School of Medicine, who served as lead author on the study.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/28hxtawt

Article Source: Geisel School of Medicine News

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08/23/2021

Geisel’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health $7.1M Grant to Expand Work in Digital Therapeutics

Article Excerpt: The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) has received a five-year renewal grant of more than $7.1 million from The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), an institute under the National Institutes of Health dedicated to supporting scientific research on drug use and its consequences. “I’m very excited for Dr. Marsch and her colleagues in the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health to receive this renewed support to pursue improvements to treating substance use disorders,” says Geisel’s dean Duane A. Compton, PhD. “The digital tools developed by CTBH, and its collaborative partners, provide ongoing innovative approaches to help individuals in need manage their disorder.”

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/e7kxk9ws

Article Source: Geisel School of Medicine News

Posted in: Emerging Technologies // Tagged: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
06/11/2021

mHealth research applied to regulated and unregulated behavioral health sciences

Nebeker C. (2020). mHealth research applied to regulated and unregulated behavioral health sciences. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 48(1): 49-59. doi: 10.1177/1073110520917029

Digital and mobile health (mHealth) technology has advanced behavioral research beyond what current regulations and guidelines can support, both for biomedical researchers and for citizen scientists (i.e., individuals without research training using mHealth for self-tracking and self-experimentation). Read More

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12/23/2019

Celebrating 20 Years of Open Access and Innovation at JMIR Publications

Article Excerpt: Twenty years ago, JMIR (originally the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the journal; now, JMIR Publications, the publisher) started an unprecedented journey to disrupt the medical informatics and publishing world with a new kind of journal and a new type of business model. The term “open access” was not invented back in 1999; most journals were still published and distributed on paper… The Journal of Medical Internet Research was one of the first journals worldwide to use a new publishing model that empowers academics and enables end users like patients to access scientific information without going through a library.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/ycqy5ql5

Article Source: JMIR

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04/16/2019

O’Malley Receives Distinguished Award for Scientific Excellence

Article Excerpt: James O’Malley, MS, PhD, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of biomedical data science at the Geisel School of Medicine and director of the Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2019 ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) Award for Excellence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Methodology.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/y4vnombu

Article Source: Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine News

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11/02/2018

NIH Greatly Expands Investment in BRAIN Initiative

Article Excerpt: The National Institutes of Health announces funding of more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, an exciting trans-agency effort to arm researchers with revolutionary tools to fundamentally understand the neural circuits that underlie the healthy and diseased brain…Furthermore, the NIH is trying to leverage some BRAIN Initiative advances to help tackle the pain and opioid crisis.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/ycve36dc

Article Source: EurekAlert!

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