Digital Health & New Technologies
Leadership
Mission and Goals
Within the fields of both oncology and supportive care, digital health is rapidly becoming recognized as an innovative and important means of improving medical efficiency and patient outcomes. Digital health — the use of technology to improve health and healthcare — is a simple concept, but a broad field that encompasses telehealth and telemedicine, health information technology, mobile health, and personalized medicine. One of its prime aims and benefits is the empowerment of all individuals to make better-informed health decisions by providing accurate and appropriate information as well as options for prevention, early diagnosis, and disease management outside traditional healthcare settings. Digital health products include mobile medical apps, decision support software, wearable devices, and more.
The aims of the study group are to promote education and awareness of health technologies in supportive cancer care and to create research collaboration opportunities in digital health among MASCC members. The topic of digital health cuts across numerous themes in supportive cancer care, so members of the study group will work to educate and collaborate with all MASCC members and study groups.
How to Join
To join a study group, you must be a MASCC member. Members can belong to up to three study groups.
