Research / Projects

Digital Discovery Program

The DDP comprehensive digital health research program of patient-centric health studies using wearable, mobile and sensor technologies serves as a scalable platform for digital trials in order to better understand complex diseases and optimize health and wellbeing.

Do you want to participate in clinical trials?

Actively recruiting studies that you may be able to participate in or learn about new interventions that are being considered.

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Team

Erwin Bottinger

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Matteo Danieletto

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Thomas Fuchs

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Robert Hirten

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Sparshdeep (Shelly) Kaur

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Girish Nadkarni

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Micol Zweig

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BACKGROUND & VISION

The Digital Discovery Program (DDP) is a comprehensive program of patient-centric health studies and clinical tools using wearable, mobile and sensor technologies to generate and integrate multi-modal data to better understand these complex diseases which impact millions of individuals, lead to loss of life and health and costs billions each year.

The eHive Platform

We have designed a patient-facing study application, the eHive platform, to dynamically and remotely consent participants and support them throughout their digital research journey. Participating in a digital study will involve:

  • Answering surveys via an app for a few minutes each day

  • Keeping a wearable, such as wearing an Apple Watch on you for the study's duration

Our dynamic e-consent is a personalized communication interface that puts participants at the center of decision-making. This approach is considered “dynamic” and innovative because participants can:

  • Give appropriate, specific consent for different research and clinical activities;

  • Change their preferences in real-time in response to their changing circumstances;

  • Enroll in new studies through our digital interface without the need of an in-person visit;

  • Receive messages from researchers when there is a change, their opinion is needed, a new consent is required, or a new study is available for them to consider.

Participants can consent for studies they are eligible for and make a difference by helping researchers understand the complexity of disease and wellness.

ACTIVE PROJECTS

Pain stress sleep

The Pain, Stress, Sleep study is enrolling participants over the age of 18 who have been seen as a patient at the Mount Sinai Health System before. We will look at how the symptoms of pain, stress and sleep, which we live with every day, affect our health outcomes.

Warrior Watch

The Warrior Watch study seeks to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the psychological well-being of health care workers and learn how this stress can be relieved. We also hope to identify COVID-19 infections in our employees prior to the onset of symptoms.

The Warrior Watch study is currently enrolling Mount Sinai Health System employees. 

Wellness Hub

The Wellness Hub App is a confidential self-assessment and resilience-promoting resource. In the app, you can complete many different measures of wellbeing and get immediate feedback on how you are doing. The App is available to all Mount Sinai employees via Sinai Central.