Optum Innovation Arm Opens Digital Health Research Center at Cornell

Optum Labs, the innovation arm of UnitedHealth Group, has opened a digital health research hub at New York City-based Cornell University.

As per the report, the partnership aims to advance precision behavioral health, tech-based tools for aging in place, and more equitable algorithms. The Cornell Tech researchers will study how to incorporate data from wearables and internet-of-things devices to improve patient data, as well as develop new types of care delivery using remote monitoring and augmented and virtual reality.

The partnership will be led by Deborah Estrin, an Associate Dean and a Robert V. Tishman ’37 Professor at Cornell University, and Tanzeem Choudhury, Ph.D., Senior Vice President at Optum Labs, and a Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology at Cornell University, with the specific intent of transforming patient health outcomes and care by incorporating new types of health data from wearables and IoT devices and creating new types of remote intervention and care delivery using augmented reality and virtual reality actuation technologies with computational techniques.

"The new algorithms and computational systems resulting from this partnership have the potential to shape the future of digital healthcare solutions," said Tanzeem Choudhury, PhD, senior vice president at Optum Labs, in a university news release.

Optum Labs is providing funding for 2022 and 2023.

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