Best Life Brands – Utilizing Remote Patient Monitoring in Home Healthcare

Presented by:
Karen L. Fortuna, PhD, LICSW
Dr. Fortuna is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth College and Co-Founder of the Collaborative Design for Recovery and Health (https://collabrh.org). As an international collaborative of patients, peer support specialists, caregivers, policymakers and payer systems, the Collaborative uses community-based participatory research to facilitate the development, evaluation, and implementation of digital tools that leverage mobile health to address needs identified by community members from vulnerable populations such as older adults with multiple chronic health conditions and people with disabilities, rare diseases, and psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Fortuna has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications co-authored with patient partners, and averages 1-2 invited presentations per month (and over 100 presentations) at both national and international scientific meetings (including invited presentations at SAMHSA, NASMHPD, and many other organizations). Dr. Fortuna has received funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), National Institute of Mental Health, American Federation of Aging, Brain and Behavior Foundation, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Overall, she has been responsible for conducting or collaborating on more than 30 research projects including topics such as health disparities, self-management, patient engagement in digital technologies, user-centered design and community-engaged research, and has pioneered a new field of study “digital peer support”.
Dr. Fortuna is Chair of the Patient Engagement National Advisory Council to PCORI, in which she is currently co-leading a project to update the community engagement standards and integrate these updates to the PCORI Engagement Matrix. Dr. Fortuna is an invited member to PCORI’s Patient Centered Approach Methods Committee, American Psychiatric Association’s Smartphone App Advisory Panel, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Advisory Panel, and Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft Research Group Die Offene Tür ‘s Open Innovation international advisory panel. She is also a member of the Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community, in which she is working with the Digital Medicine Society and the Food and Drug Administration to develop best practices in diversity, equity and inclusion in digital health measurement. Dr. Fortuna was the recipient of the Japanese Agency for Medical Research and Development Research Proposal of the year, Ally of the Year Award from the Western Mass Peer Network, Alvin R. Tarlov & John E. Ware Jr. Award in Patient Reported Outcomes,and the Faculty Achievement Award from the National Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work.