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ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2025

Opportunities and Challenges for Designing in Connected Health: Insights From an Expert Workshop.

Shweta Premanandan, Awais Ahmad, Alex Jaranka, Ece Üreten, Eunji Lee, Jennifer Gross, Åsa Cajander, Sofia Ouhbi, Marta Lárusdóttir, Owen Eriksson and 1 more

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Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Shweta PremanandanDivision of Computing Science, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0732-7009
Awais AhmadVi3, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6947-9409
Alex JarankaDepartment of Neurobiology, Health Sciences and Society, Karolinska University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-6775
Ece ÜretenControl and Simulation Group, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0607-0594
Eunji LeeBiomedical Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-7736
Jennifer GrossDivision of Computing Science, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6397-4087
Åsa CajanderVi3, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7472-2215
Sofia OuhbiDivision of Computing Science, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7614-9731
Marta LárusdóttirDepartment of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0256-5710
Owen ErikssonDepartment of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2024-9474
Sten-Erik ÖhlundDepartment of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2382-2129

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health care increasingly depends on information and communication technology. This offers both opportunities and challenges when designing connected health systems. While individual studies examined particular cases, there is a limited synthesis of insights across projects. The objective of this paper is to explore these opportunities and challenges by examining 6 diverse connected health projects and synthesizing lessons from an expert workshop. To achieve this, we conducted a full-day workshop that brought together 6 connected health projects. The workshop used an iterative and participatory process which included paper submissions and presentations and facilitated discussions, and a gallery walk to enable cross-case comparison and collaborative reflection. Thematic analysis of workshop outputs was then used to synthesize key opportunities and challenges in designing connected health systems. The 6 projects represented a variety of design methods and approaches to connected health, and their discussion surfaced both opportunities and challenges in this domain. Key opportunities include improving data integration and usability, enhancing collaboration across stakeholders, using a user-centered and iterative design process, addressing complexity in sociotechnical systems, sustainability, and adopting digital infrastructures for seamless communication. Participants also identified important challenges, namely exchange of information, interoperability, and communication; ethical considerations, rules, and regulations; understanding design, evaluation, and standards; actionable data, reliability, quality, and trust in data; and stakeholder involvement. The contribution of this paper lies in the synthesis of insights across multiple projects and perspectives to provide practical guidance for researchers, designers, and policymakers. By highlighting opportunities and challenges in designing connected health systems, the findings emphasize the importance of patient-centered, sustainable, and collaborative design approaches while also pointing to the need to address persistent barriers. Advancing connected health will require adopting iterative and inclusive design processes that prioritize patient-centeredness, sustainability, and collaboration across health care systems.

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Delivery of Health CareHumansconnected healthdesigning for connected healthdigital healthdigital health systems regulationsdigital infrastructureseHealthinteroperabilitymedical informaticsparticipatory expert workshopsustainability in digital health

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PMID41172290
PMCPMC12619016

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