UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s Enterprise Collaborations Group recently helped launch a two-year real-world research study that focuses on how using consumer devices, like Apple Watch and iPhone, can help people with asthma improve self-management and monitoring. The study is being conducted within UC Irvine’s School of Medicine at the Center for Clinical Research in collaboration with Anthem, Inc., one of the largest insurers in the U.S., and Apple Inc.

“Personalized medicine and improving the health of populations are based on similar principles. The human body contains critical information – data – necessary to diagnose and treat our patients,” said Dr. Steve Goldstein, vice chancellor for health affairs at UCI, in a press release. “Through innovation and emerging technologies, we are able to harness that data, and by coupling it with an individual’s environment and experiences, chart pathways to lifelong health and well-being. Public-private collaborations like this one with UCI, Anthem and Apple, are fueled by the passion to serve and shared entrepreneurial spirit and are helping us establish new standards of whole-person care for our patients.”

Applied Innovation’s Enterprise Collaborations Group bridges the gap between university and industry. The team connects industry partners with appropriate UCI research and facilitates intricate work engagements to bolster those partnerships.

“We are hoping that this will be first of many projects with Anthem and we’re hoping that Anthem will be one of many companies that we work with,” said Nancy Kim Yun, MBA, group director of Enterprise Collaborations Group at Applied Innovation.

In projects such as these, many aspects of Applied Innovation’s internal teams are engaged, in particular, the Industry Sponsored Research Group, which was critical in working through the various necessary agreements. Applied Innovation’s Events and Information Technology teams helped execute senior executive leadership meetings at the Cove @ UCI, Applied Innovation’s physical location.

“This is a team effort and it’s an opportunity to allow the campus to employ its best and brightest and when there’s an area that is an atypical area of delivery of knowledge to impact, we step in,” said Carolyn Stephens, Ph.D., MBA, managing director of Enterprise Collaborations at Applied Innovation.

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Main Graphic: Kate Wokowsky, UCI Beall Applied Innovation