*What: *Brittany Fiore-Silfvast on The Qualitative Dimensions of Making Data Flow in Digital Health in the U.S. and India *When:* Tuesday April 30th at 12 noon *Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* The convergence of mobile ICTs with an array of medical devices, biosensors, and medical applications is heralded by policy and industry leaders as “a technological fix” for the seemingly entrenched problems in healthcare in both the U.S. and India. This emerging digital health ecology promises unprecedented mobility for digital health data across stakeholders, contexts and institutional boundaries, with the power to improve health outcomes, transform clinical care, and advance scientific discovery. Yet current digital health efforts often fail to realize this promise for the performance of data, falling short of everyone’s expectations. My research explores multiple sites of digital health innovation including mobile health in rural India, telehealth in the rural U.S., and consumer health and wellness in urban centers in both countries. Drawing on two years of ethnographic observations, participation, and interviews within these different communities of practice this talk will present an analytical tool for understanding these expectations and realities in data performances. *Bio:* Brittany Fiore-Silfvast is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. Her research interests center around the co-constitution of technology and society. Studying processes of technological change, she is interested in how knowledge production, organizational forms, and communication practices are reimagined and reconfigured. She focuses on the emergence and implications of trends in informationalization in arenas such as healthcare, global development, building design and construction, and warfare. Her dissertation research comparatively considers the emerging trends and implications of digital health technology and the associated data transformations across the U.S. and India. Specifically, she examines the communities of practice around mobile health, telehealth, and consumer health and wellness. She received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant for this work. She is also part of an Intel funded research project studying the social, organizational, and institutional arrangements around emerging consumer-oriented digital health and wellness tools and applications. This work considers the production of new forms of patient and consumer generated data and the emergence of new spaces of sensemaking inside and outside of the clinic.