Buy or Build: Challenges Developing Consumer Digital Health Interventions

Author:

Saver Barry G.1,Marquard Jenna L.2,Gummeson Jeremy3,Stekler Joanne4,Scanlon James M.5

Affiliation:

1. Swedish Family Medicine Residency Cherry Hill, Swedish Health Services, Seattle, Washington, United States

2. School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

3. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

4. Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States

5. Swedish Center for Research and Innovation, Swedish Health Services, Seattle, Washington, United States

Abstract

Abstract Background Digital health interventions offer opportunities to improve collaborative care between clinicians and patients. Designing and implementing digital health interventions requires decisions about buying or building each technology-related component, all of which can lead to unanticipated issues. Objectives This study aimed to describe issues encountered from our “buy or build” decisions developing two digital health interventions over different timeframes, designed to use patient-generated health data to: (1) improve hypertension control and (2) measure and improve adherence to HIV-related medications. Methods CONDUIT-HID (CONtrolling Disease Using Information Technology-Hypertension In Diabetes) was developed during 2010 to 2015 to allow patients receiving care from a multispecialty group practice to easily upload home blood pressure readings into their electronic health record and trigger clinician action if mean blood pressure values indicated inadequate control. USE-MI (Unobtrusive SEnsing of Medication Intake) was developed from 2016 to 2022 to allow entry of patients' HIV-related medication regimens, send reminders if patients had not taken their medications by the scheduled time(s), attempt to detect medication ingestion through machine learning analysis of smartwatch motion data, and present graphical adherence summaries to patients and clinicians. Results Both projects required multiple “buy or build” decisions across all system components, including data collection, transfer, analysis, and display. We used commercial, off-the-shelf technology where possible, but virtually all of these components still required substantial custom development. We found that, even though our projects spanned years, issues related to our “buy or build” decisions stemmed from several common themes, including mismatches between existing and new technologies, our use case being new or unanticipated, technology stability, technology longevity, and resource limitations. Conclusion Those designing and implementing digital health interventions need to make numerous “buy or build” decisions as they create the technologies that underpin their intervention. These “buy or build” decisions, and the ensuing issues that will arise because of them, require careful planning, particularly if they represent an “edge case” use of existing commercial systems.

Funder

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The National Institute of Mental Health

Publisher

Georg Thieme Verlag KG

Subject

Health Information Management,Computer Science Applications,Health Informatics

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