1. The CITI Digital Health
Consortium Initiative
Arlen D Meyers, MD,MBA
Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
&
Jiban Khuntia, PhD
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
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2. What is digital health?
 Digital health refers to the application of information and
communications technologies to improve health.
 Categories:
 Mobile health and Telemedicine
 Patient engagement using mobile alerts on medication and communication with
physician
 EMR and mobile apps to support post-discharge services such as medication
adherence, education, patient follow-up
 New business models (HIE, ACO, Care Transitions, Homes)
 Comparative Effectiveness/Appropriateness research
 Genomics, metabolomics, proteomics (function, structure and interaction of
genes, proteins, etc.)
 Social media in medicine and the Quality/privacy issues
 Business intelligence in healthcare and big data analytics
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3. Digital Health Opportunity
 Close the gap between technologists and practitioners
 Accelerate the development and deployment of digital health
technologies
 Education and awareness
 Community outreach
 Clinical translational research and validation
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4. CITI Digital Health Consortium Initiative
Vision
 The CITI-DHC initiative will be an educational and R/D consortium at
the University of Colorado Denver Business School for
 offering basic and applied research and outreach to generate
digital health solutions for our members.
 establishing educational curriculum that integrates
entrepreneurship, healthcare, and digital technologies
 developing the next generation of digital health platforms and
validating their clinical functionality and value
 Members include entrepreneurs, service providers, health providers,
researchers, educators, industry, investors and other digital health
innovation stakeholders
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5. CITI-DH Consortium Initiative
Role
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6. CITI Digital Health Consortium Initiative
Mission
 The mission of the CITI-DHC is to accelerate digital health
transformation through research and recommend solutions to the
multiple challenges surrounding the design, development, and
integration of information technologies into the health care system.
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7. CITI-DH Consortium Initiative
Objectives
 Education, providing digital health education members of the CU
community
 Research, designing and developing digital health products and
services that provide patient defined value
 Translational research, getting digital health ideas from design to
adoption and use in the community
 Validation, designing and executing digital health clinical trials to
validate the products during development and after launch as part of
post market surveillance
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8. CITI-DH Consortium Initiative
Academic entities
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UCD Business school CITI
UCD Business school Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship
CU affiliated hospitals
Anschutz Medical Campus Program in Bio-innovation and
Entrepreneurship
 CCTSI
 Professional Schools/Graduate School
 School of Public Health
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9. CITI-DH Consortium Initiative
Proposed Governance and Structure
CITI DIRECTOR &
GOVERNANING BOARD
Executive Director
CITI-DH ADVISORY BOARD
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
Affiliate Organizations
& Research Partners
Assoc. Director/s
Members, Experts and
Teaching Partners
Program Manager/s
Areas
Education Program
and Development
Research and
Services
Applied Research &
Clinical Validation
Accelerator
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Business School
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