The history and future of digital health in the field of behavioral medicine

Since its earliest days, the field of behavioral medicine has leveraged technology to increase the reach and effectiveness of its interventions. Here, we highlight key areas of opportunity and recommend next steps to further advance intervention development, evaluation, and commercialization with a...

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Published inJournal of behavioral medicine Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 67 - 83
Main Authors Arigo, Danielle, Jake-Schoffman, Danielle E., Wolin, Kathleen, Beckjord, Ellen, Hekler, Eric B., Pagoto, Sherry L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.02.2019
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Academic staff
Behavior Therapy
Behavioral medicine
Behavioral Medicine - trends
Behavioral sciences
Commercialization
Digital technology
Family Medicine
Forecasts and trends
General Practice
Health behavior
Health care industry
Health Psychology
History
Humans
Intervention
Labor force
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mobile Applications - trends
Partnerships
Reproducibility
Reproducibility of Results
Social Media
Technology
Technology application
Wearable Electronic Devices - trends
Behavior change intervention
Digital health
Mobile applications
Social media
Wearable technology
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Summary:Since its earliest days, the field of behavioral medicine has leveraged technology to increase the reach and effectiveness of its interventions. Here, we highlight key areas of opportunity and recommend next steps to further advance intervention development, evaluation, and commercialization with a focus on three technologies: mobile applications (apps), social media, and wearable devices. Ultimately, we argue that future of digital health behavioral science research lies in finding ways to advance more robust academic-industry partnerships. These include academics consciously working towards preparing and training the work force of the twenty first century for digital health, actively working towards advancing methods that can balance the needs for efficiency in industry with the desire for rigor and reproducibility in academia, and the need to advance common practices and procedures that support more ethical practices for promoting healthy behavior.
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ISSN:0160-7715
1573-3521
DOI:10.1007/s10865-018-9966-z