Digital Health Lab (DHL)

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The Digital Health Lab focuses on person-centered design, development, and implementation of digital health interventions, digital therapeutics, and health information technologies since 2013. Its research explores how information systems and technology can transform healthcare delivery globally, ensuring access to high-quality, affordable care. The lab applies both qualitative and quantitative methods to address challenges that are academically significant and practically relevant. Key areas of expertise include patient-facing technologies like personal health records (PHRs) and mobile tools, as well as telehealth and electronic health records (EHR) adoption in healthcare organizations.

Director

Bengisu Tulu
Professor, The Business School

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5184

I enjoy teaching because it allows me to interact with students who have the potential to make the world a better place using technology. I continually innovate in my courses to ensure students enjoy the learning experience, learn the key concepts and skills related to information systems through real world examples, have an opportunity to learn from each other, learn to present themselves as professionals, and most importantly learn to use or develop technology to make a difference. WPI provides a learning environment that allows me to accomplish these principles with its emphasis in theory ...

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Highlights

The Continued Use of Mobile Health Apps: Insights From a Longitudinal Study

The continued use of mobile health apps: insights from a longitudinal study

I Vaghefi, B Tulu

JMIR mHealth and uHealth 7 (8), e12983

A Theory of Organization-EHR Affordance Actualization

A theory of organization-EHR affordance actualization

DM Strong, O Volkoff, SA Johnson, LR Pelletier, B Tulu, I Bar-On, J Trudel, ...

Journal of the association for information systems 15 (2), 2