Mayo Clinic Center for Digital Health (CDH) was established in 2019 and Mayo Clinic CDH Research and Outcomes unit in 2021.1 The research unit’s mission is to advance the delivery of digital health care through the demonstration of the quality, safety, service, value, and efficacy of digital practice, driving awareness and change.1 A 5-year digital health research agenda was developed to focus and align efforts and resources on the areas of greatest need and impact.2 A mixed-method theme development survey with input from digital health thought leaders from academia, provider organizations, payers, and solution providers yielded 10 top themes.3 On Wednesday, March 20, 2024, Mayo Clinic CDH hosted the inaugural Digital Health Research Symposium focused on 3 of the top 10 digital health research themes: scalability, patient engagement, and team dynamics. The symposium attracted over 50 scientific abstract applications describing novel and unpublished research focused on these 3 themes. The abstracts underwent independent and blinded reviews and scoring by 10 members of the scientific review committee across category fit, importance, innovation, methodology, and anticipated adoption. The top 6 abstracts, 2 in each of the 3 categories, were selected for presentation and publication, however, 1 abstract was withdrawn.4, 5, 6, 7, 8 The symposium was conducted via live audio-video Zoom conferencing, 2 hours in duration, and free of charge to preregistrants. Over 500 hundred participants registered, representing over 150 different universities and health care organizations, as well as 12 countries. Opening panel members from Emory University, Northwell Health, and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science discussed definitions, importance, and current state of knowledge and practice of scalability, patient engagement, and team dynamics in digital health care.9 Lead investigators of each of the selected abstracts took 10 minutes to present their research and answer questions. Closing panelists from Thomas Jefferson University and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science reacted to abstract presentations, shared the highlights, provided constructive criticism, and proposed the ways in which the science could impact clinical practice.10 Judges voted and selected the single best abstract presentation.5 Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health agreed to publish the summaries of the opening and closing panelists and the 5 presented abstracts, accompanying this editorial.
Potential Competing Interests
The authors report no competing interests.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Barbara Copeland, Julianne Lunde, Jordan Coffey, Nicole Blegen, Matthew Holets, Brenda Speltz, Beatriz Oyarzabal, Lindsay Emanuel, Bart Demaerschalk, and Chris Wittich.
Footnotes
To accompany the panelist summaries and 5 scientific research abstract manuscripts from inaugural Mayo Clinic Digital Health Research Symposium March 20, 2024.
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