Benefits, Facilitators, and Recommendations for Digital Health Academic-Industry Collaboration: A Mini Review

Digital health remains a growing and challenging niche in public health practice. Academic-industry collaboration (AIC) offers a mechanism to bring disparate sectors together to alleviate digital health challenges of engagement, reach, sustainability, dissemination, evaluation, and equity. Despite t...

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Published inFrontiers in digital health Vol. 3; p. 616278
Main Authors Ford, Kelsey L, Portz, Jennifer D, Zhou, Shuo, Gornail, Starlynne, Moore, Susan L, Zhang, Xuhong, Bull, Sheana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 15.04.2021
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academic industry collaboration
Digital Health
innovation
intersector collaboration
partnership
innovation
digital health
intersector collaboration
partnership
academic industry collaboration
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Summary:Digital health remains a growing and challenging niche in public health practice. Academic-industry collaboration (AIC) offers a mechanism to bring disparate sectors together to alleviate digital health challenges of engagement, reach, sustainability, dissemination, evaluation, and equity. Despite the ongoing endorsements for AIC in digital health, limited understanding exists of successful AIC exists. Most published research highlights the barriers of collaboration rather than efficacy, leaving collaborators asking: What are the benefits and facilitators of AIC and do they apply in digital health? As an initial effort to fill the gap in the literature, the purpose of this mini review outlines the benefits and facilitators from previous AIC and offers recommendations specific to digital health.
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Reviewed by: Tijs Van Den Broek, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; Yaru Chen, City University of London, United Kingdom
This article was submitted to Health Technology Innovation, a section of the journal Frontiers in Digital Health
Edited by: Harry Scarbrough, City University of London, United Kingdom
ISSN:2673-253X
2673-253X
DOI:10.3389/fdgth.2021.616278