New industry roadmap outlines best practices
for advancing digital health innovation for the
underserved pediatric population
BOSTON, Feb. 25,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Digital Medicine
Society (DiMe), a global non-profit and the professional home for
digital medicine, released The Playbook: Pediatric
Digital Medicine, an industry roadmap to address the unique
challenges of pediatric digital health innovation and create
solutions that optimize care for children.
Today, children make up 23% of the U.S. population, but they
receive less than 10% of total healthcare funding and 5% of venture
capital funding. Where investment does exist, best practices for
developing digital health solutions that are optimized for the
unique needs of pediatric care and research are largely absent.
In response to the lack of investment and barriers to innovation
in the pediatric digital health space, DiMe partnered with Boston
Children's Hospital and other key industry partners to create
The Playbook: Pediatric Digital Medicine.
"The future of pediatric healthcare depends on the choices we
make today. In my practice, I see the urgent need for
pediatric-specific digital health tool. But need alone isn't
enough," Amy Molten, Chair, Section on Advances in Therapeutics
& Technology, American Academy of Pediatrics, "True progress
requires turning good intentions into meaningful action. By
applying the same rigor, care, and creativity to pediatric digital
health as we do to life-saving interventions, we can create
technology that truly serves children and their caregivers. These
resources pave the way for thoughtful innovation - technology that
grows alongside them, remaining responsive, ethical, and built for
their future."
The Playbook addresses pediatric innovation
challenges by providing insights and recommendations for
developers, clinicians, healthcare professionals, investors, and
life sciences professionals to navigate the complexities of
pediatric digital health innovation. By aligning incentives and
emphasizing collaboration, The Playbook is designed to
accelerate innovation, improve health outcomes for children, and
create sustainable solutions for the healthcare market.
"Children make up one of the most vulnerable populations in the
U.S. and face significant gaps in care - but the ability for
technology to close these gaps is within our reach," added
Ian Miller, Program Lead, DiMe. "We
are proud to have built these open-source resources that will fast
track the development and use of technological advancements that
center on children's unique needs and deliver safe, effective, and
equitable care."
The Playbook features four chapters focused on:
- Market dynamics and sustainable business opportunities in
pediatric digital health
- Centralizing infants and children as the users in product
development
- Implementing to scale and understanding the unique needs of
children in aligning clinical care and digital health technologies
(DHTs)
- DHT clinical investigations and advancements to understand,
collect, and use data to improve pediatric patients' lives
This project builds upon the success of DiMe's The
Playbook: Digital Clinical Measures and The
Playbook: Digital Healthcare. The
Playbooks are signature DiMe resources, providing
essential guides supporting healthcare's most critical digital
innovation efforts.
At DiMe, we convene and activate leaders, innovators, and
enthusiasts from around the globe at the intersection of digital
innovation and healthcare to solve the problems that no one else
can fix. To change the digital health landscape as a DiMe partner,
click here.
About the Digital Medicine Society: DiMe is a global
non-profit and the professional home for all members of the digital
medicine community. Together, we tackle the toughest digital
medicine challenges, develop clinical-quality resources on a
technology timeline, and deliver these actionable resources to the
field via open-source channels and educational programs.
Media Contact: Carla
English, press@dimesociety.org
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