Toward precision health: applying artificial intelligence analytics to digital health biometric datasets

The rapid development of digital health devices has enabled patients to engage in their care to an unprecedented degree and holds the possibility of significantly improving the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of many medical conditions. Combined with the emergence of artificial intelligence algorithms, biometric datasets produced from these digital health devices present new opportunities to create precision-based, personalized approaches for healthcare delivery. For effective implementation of such innovations to patient care, clinicians will require an understanding of the types of datasets produced from digital health technologies; the types of analytic methods including feature selection, convolution neural networking, and deep learning that can be used to analyze digital data; and how the interpretation of these findings are best translated to patient care. In this perspective, we aim to provide the groundwork for clinicians to be able to apply artificial intelligence to this transformation of healthcare.