The network is structured around four thematic axes
Axis 1 focuses on digital platforms, information governance, and access to real-world data. It aims to strengthen the research community’s capacity to access, manage, and leverage health data within an ecosystem that remains fragmented.
Axis 2 supports the development and adaptation of methods to analyze data and transform it into evidence and trusted tools to inform decision-making by individuals, healthcare professionals, managers, and public decision-makers. In the context of increasingly complex and large-scale data, Axis 2 promotes innovative approaches combining AI, statistics, and mathematics, while addressing challenges related to robustness, generalizability, causality, reproducibility, and bias.
Axis 3 focuses on the design and implementation of digital health interventions through a sociotechnical approach that considers users, their interactions with technology, and their context. As scaling remains a challenge and many projects do not move beyond the pilot stage, Axis 3 aims to support interventions that are relevant, accessible, and grounded in real-world care settings, notably through Living Labs, in order to promote adoption, sustainability, and the long-term impact of digital health tools.
Axis 4 examines digital transformation as an organizational and social phenomenon. It aims to manage the tensions associated with digital health in order to reduce risks and generate positive outcomes. It also seeks to guide organizational practices and public policies toward a digital transformation that is open, inclusive, sustainable, and trustworthy.
Our Foundational Principles
- Sustainable Health
Reduce the environmental footprint of digital health and promote the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and our planet - Citizen Engagement
Promote accessibility and dialogue with citizens and communities, and guide a socially acceptable digital transformation - Trustworthy Digital Health
Promote technologies and practices grounded in transparency and reliability - Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (EDIA)
Foster an equitable and inclusive environment, free of barriers, by taking into account the diverse identities of communities and individuals, particularly within RSN committees and governance bodies - Open Science
Promote the sharing of data, practices, and scientific assets that are open and, where possible, freely accessible, in alignment with FAIR principles and UNESCO recommendations
