Building Effective Teams for Digital Health Innovation

The potential of digital technology to transform healthcare is tremendous. Data-generating products, for instance, could arm patients and practitioners with information at unprecedented levels, enabling quicker, more-informed healthcare decisions. To bring such products to market, digital health product development teams often draw from both medical device and information technology disciplines. But there can be challenges. During the BIOMEDevice San Jose 2017 panel discussion, “Building Better Cross-Functional Teams for the Digital Health Explosion,” panelists discussed some of the potential issues that could be faced when building such teams. The discussion was moderated by Gregg Jackson, principal consultant for Gershon Medtech; the panel included Charlie Dean, vice president, R&D and corporate development for Apollo Endosurgery; Marta Gaia Zanchi, vice president, digital health, Orbees Medical; and Dagmar Beyerlein, senior director of product development for director of product development for Drawbridge Health Inc.  In digital health, product development is “unlike traditional innovation processes in healthcare or IT,” Zanchi told BIOMEDevice attendees. “In digital health, technology is only a piece of the innovation. "Companies embracing a service mindset, embedding tools into end-to-end process workflows, have greater chance of success," Zanchi later explained. "The sector needs service innovation—and a focus on evidence of outcomes generated by new se...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: BIOMEDevice San Jose Digital Health Source Type: news