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Clinical Information Engineering Lab
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The lab studies digital health, using smartphone apps to support the management and treatment of diabetes and other conditions.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward evidence-based digital health
The Waki DTx Lab studies digital health that uses information devices such as smartphones and wearables, together with apps.
The lab develops apps for lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes, confirms their effects through clinical trials and clinical studies, and works to turn them into tools that are used in society.
Recently, the lab has been focusing on developing apps with stronger features that bring about behavior change and encourage improvements in lifestyle.
By working with the Faculty of Medicine, hospitals, and local clinics, the lab aims to carry out research and development that meets the needs of clinical practice.
Key terms
- Digital health
- The use of digital technologies such as smartphones and wearables in medicine and health promotion
- Behavior change
- Changing lifestyle habits, such as diet and exercise, in a healthier direction
- SaMD
- Software as a Medical Device: software used to diagnose or treat disease that requires regulatory approval
NewsLab news
The division was renamed "Health Behavior Informatics and Therapeutics" (formerly Clinical Information Engineering)
A review article on digital therapeutics and type 2 diabetes was accepted by the Journal of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology
A graduate student received the 7th Academic Paper Award from the Japan Association for Medical Informatics
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies digital health that combines smartphones, wearables, apps, and the internet, making use of digital information related to health and medicine. It is working on new methods of diabetes management that use mobile devices and generative AI.
*Illustrative imageEvidence-based digital health
The lab builds models of disease management and treatment by combining information devices, apps, and the internet, and confirms their effects through clinical studies.
*Illustrative imageApp development for diabetes and obesity
The lab develops therapeutic apps (SaMD) and health promotion apps (Non-SaMD) for type 2 diabetes and obesity. By incorporating interaction between patients and the app, as well as features based on behavior change theories, it aims to create apps that people can easily keep using over the long term.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Waki DTx Lab consist of faculty, registered researchers, administrative and research support staff, and graduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKayo WakiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorSze Wei Thing
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Personal Health Apps for Smartphones” Intel Free Press / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Evidence-based digital health: “AmazfitBand7” Silbof / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- App development for diabetes and obesity: “Device to check for diabetes 2” Tomwsulcer / CC0 (cropped)
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