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Emergency Medicine ResearchUniversity of Virginia

Emergency Medicine ResearchUniversity of Virginia

Digital follow-up & mental health

Tools that keep patients connected after they leave the ED.

What we ask Lens Pediatrics
Discharge: the handoff homeSignal from a wearable at home, since dischargeEarly changeThe early warning, back to the EDYoung personOne shared digital toolSchoolSchoolEmergency departmentEmergency departmentHomeHome
IllustrationDigital tools that keep patients connected to care after they leave the emergency department.

The problem

The problem

Care doesn’t end at discharge, and the handoff home is where many patients fall through. This work builds and tests digital tools for patients and clinicians, from continuous signals and new markers of labored breathing to a digital solution that connects schools, emergency departments and families around youth mental health.

A patient at home wearing a wrist sensor, its heart rhythm streaming to a clinician at a clinic’s monitor wall

Focus areas

What this work wants to know

  1. Which physiological signals warn of deterioration early?

  2. How can emergency departments, schools and families work together on youth mental health?

  3. How should digital tools fit clinical workflows?

Studies, papers & news

Featured work

People

Who works on this

Faculty whose research connects to this area, and the investigators who lead its studies.

Meet everyone

Study leads

  • Shrirang Gadrey, MDPrincipal investigator · ARK, Pediatric asthma kinematics

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