In digital health domain, is the academic research that leads the development of the industry OR is the industry development that impacts the associated academic research ?
It may happen in both ways, in most profound cases they may be changed periodically. The most vivd example is, maybe, DNA sequencing. From purely and very difficult academic researches to sequencing machines, massive sequenation and to understanding of the results in academic investigations. Something like this one can observe in the domain of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. These investigations started in early 50-th, even before the word AI appeared. For many years it was a subject for purely asademic inevestgations with few applications in clinical practice. Nowadays we observe a rapid attack of AI industry at healthcare followed by a relatively new trend: it's neccessary to slow down a little and to understand the real role of AI in healthecare - already in the academic framework. I think it's rather typical situation, both ways are possible, more than that, are neccessary and change each other.
Why have you put this question?
Because health care is a highlay regulated environment often are governmently initiatives and new regulations that drive innovation in health informatics. For example GDPR in Europe is influencing the development of IT platforms
totally agree with Michael Shifrin , it can happen both ways depending on the context. Jorge Tavares also raised a valid point regarding regulations.
What is also increasingly happening these days is the creation of multidisciplinary teams that combine both academics and practitioners to co-create digital health tools...
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