Developing Wellbeing Service Effectiveness Platform : Some RE considerations

Abstract

Digital health is an emerging field that brings together professionals from wide range of disciplines, including clinical medicine, health services research, behavioral science, education, engineering, and computer science. For embracing the opportunities of digital health and improving the health and wellbeing of people, we need new multidisciplinary development approaches. The purpose of this vision paper is to understand better what kinds of demands digital health-related development projects pose on RE-activities and what kind of RE approach would be appropriate to deal with the identified challenges. To this end, we first discuss the differences of research traditions that are related to digital health. We then explore one digital health –related development project with the attempt to: 1) distill characteristics of the development challenge, and 2) determine a RE approach to address the identified characteristics.