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Featured News
Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Hightow-Weidman advances public health through digital platforms
As director of the College of Nursing’s Institute on Digital Health and Innovation (IDHI), Dr. Lisa Hightow-Weidman conducts research to strengthen FSU’s public health leadership and improve patient care.
Hightow-Weidman entered the medical research industry as an infectious disease specialist, advancing her work in the early 2000s when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was becoming more understood through cause, diagnosis and treatment. She centered her research around helping young individuals with HIV lead healthier lives — setting the stage for her breakthrough in the world of digital health.
As smartphone technology advanced and the epidemic evolved, Hightow-Weidman’s work also shifted. She expanded her realm of care beyond HIV, addressing health domains that young people struggled with, including mental health, substance use and more. To make the process more seamless, she began investing her time in developing digital health platforms that housed essential patient data and provided interventions.
Hightow-Weidman became a pioneer in digital health research, demonstrating that web and mobile-based interventions could reduce HIV risk behaviors and improve care. She created several digital health platforms that promote HIV prevention in innovative ways.
Florida State University and Samsung launch groundbreaking Smart Health Home Initiative
The FSU College of Nursing and the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation announced a collaboration with Samsung Electronics America, Inc. to create a Smart Health Home space at Latitude Margaritaville Watersound, a 55-plus community in Bay County, Fla.
The groundbreaking initiative is the result of a recent partnership with Minto Communities USA, Margaritaville Holdings and St. Joe Company, and will harness the power of Samsung’s end-to-end wellness platform, SmartThings IoT technology and Health AI, to facilitate proactive health monitoring and wellness management for aging adults.
Set to debut in mid-2025, the Smart Health Home will serve as a model for the future of home-based wellness, as FSU College of Nursing and Samsung continue to speak out on the practices in home health technology and explore opportunities to expand into additional communities.
HealthMpowerment NEXT GEN: New Small Business Innovation Research Grant
IDHI and One Cow Standing have received a $1.9 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Building on years of prior human-centered design and research for our HealthMpowerment (HMP) platform, this grant allows us to refine and evaluate our digital health intervention, HMP NEXT GEN.