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SONI³C Lab

Soni-O'Connor Novel Innovation Implementation Investigation Collaboratory (SONI³C) is a clinical research lab at UMass Chan Medical School.

Our team focuses on two main goals:

Goal 1: Making participation in clinical research possible from home, and

Goal 2: Implementing and investigating digital health interventions to improve clinical outcomes and care access in real world settings.

We believe technology can help improve how we learn about health and how we manage diseases.

Goal 1: Allow the right person from anywhere at anytime to participate in clinical research.

On average, it takes 17 years to go from evidence to practice. Health technologies are rapidly evolving and require a better approach to clinical research. We believe in democratizing research participation so that it does not require an in-person visit to a large medical center complex and in co-designing studies with people with lived experience (patients and providers).

Goal 1

Goal 2: Rapid implementation and investigation in a step-wise manner to bring effective digital health interventions to patients and their providers.

Goal 2

We believe that technology can address the needs of modern healthcare. Patients deserve high-quality and timely care that is convenient to receive. However, current imbalance in the demand and supply of healthcare, limits patient’s ability to access care and is causing significant burnout among healthcare providers. There has been an explosion of innovative and creative digital health technologies developed to improve patient outcomes and providers’ job satisfaction. We need to understand which technologies are useful and the best ways of implementing them.