Emerging Trends & Innovation – Project Volunteer Board

Interested in joining one of the Emerging Trends & Innovation Working Group Projects? The projects below welcome new volunteers.

Project Scope:

The use cases of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in digital health technologies to improve healthcare through software.

Understand the challenges, and identify the gaps. Connect different stakeholders, share knowledge, and advance in developing AI/ML in DHTs.  

Current Status:

• Q1 2025 Forum with proposed date and speaker

Regular Project Meeting Day/Time:

• Meetings every two months on Mondays 18:00-19:00 GMT

Key Skills: (currently being reviewed by WG Leads)

• Experience with the use of DHTs

• Experience with AI/ML

Project Scope:

Increasing interest in eSource keeps the issue of data integration between Research Systems (EDC, CTMS, CDMS, etc) and healthcare systems (EHR, etc) as a consistent want for Sponsors of Clinical Investigators and Regulators. Previous efforts to make this a repeatable, scalable solution have not met with wide-scale adoption, for a variety of reasons.

Some common historical points of view have included:

• That the quality of the data that can be retrieved from the Healthcare sites is insufficient to meet research needs.

• That uptake of electronic systems at investigative sites has been slow, expensive, and not delivering real value to healthcare practises.

• Types of data captured in healthcare have been more operational rather than clinical.

• Enabling the Necessary interfaces is an expensive and process-heavy undertaking.

• There is not a suitable, generally supported electronic exchange format, with a number of standard representations being supported in recent memory.

Many of these issues are on the path to being resolved; government programs have pushed the adoption and accessibility of electronic health records. In addition, there are a number of stakeholders in the Research Industry that are making the use of healthcare resources a priority for the future; examples include Transcelerate eSource initiative and HL7 Vulcan Accelerator.

Current Status:

• Jan 25 Connectathon PoC with SDC.

Regular Project Meeting Day/Time:

• Calls have moved over to Vulcan, which the Lead will add you too.

Key Skills: (currently being reviewed by WG Leads)

• Experience with HL7 Vulcan

• Experience with FHIR

• Experience in writing Use Cases