Rigorous, data-driven user testing
The Digital Health Test Studio at Amsterdam UMC is a dedicated facility for evaluating digital health technologies.
The studio brings together cutting-edge infrastructure with direct access to clinical end-users enabling you to generate robust evidence on the usability, safety, and impact of digital health solutions.
About the studio
The Digital Health Test Studio is managed by the eHealth Living & Learning Lab Amsterdam (ELLLA) within the Department of Medical Informatics at Amsterdam UMC. The studio provides a purpose-built environment where digital health technologies are evaluated under realistic healthcare conditions, using scientifically validated methods.
The studio was made possible by funding and collaboration between Amsterdam UMC and the University of Amsterdam. It serves as a shared environment where education, research, and clinical practice converge, enabling students, researchers, and professionals to design, test, and evaluate digital health solutions together. The Digital Health Test Studio supports a comprehensive range of design and testing activities, including:
- Usability testing
- User interviews
- Eye-tracking
- Co-creation sessions
- Prototyping
- Feasibility testing
- VR-based evaluation and training
Why the Digital Health Test Studio?
Cutting edge infrastructure
The Digital Health Test Studio is the first education and testing facility to use the innovative Noldus Hub, an advanced platform for integrated behavioural research. This means the studio boasts a suite of specialised research tools to get the most out of every user test.
Comprehensive multimodal data
The studio’s infrastructure allows you to capture rich, multimodal data on how users interact with digital health technologies. This provides the depth of evidence needed to inform design decisions, validate product performance, and address regulatory and market requirements.
Direct access to clinical end-users
Situated within Amsterdam UMC, one of the Netherlands’ foremost academic medical centres, the studio puts the people who matter most at the centre of digital health: patients, healthcare professionals, and healthcare organisations. This ensures that your research is grounded in a real-world healthcare context.
What can you test?
The studio supports investigation of a wide range of digital health solutions, including:
- Artificial intelligence applications
- Electronic health record (EHR) systems
- Patient portals
- Clinical decision support tools
- Digital data exchange solutions
The focus is on generating rigorous evidence about usability, safety, reliability, effectiveness, and the broader impact of these technologies on patients, healthcare professionals, and healthcare organisations.
A collaborative ecosystem
The Digital Health Test Studio exists at the intersection of education, research, and practice. Combined with our other facilities, the Mobile UX labs and the Digital Playground, this ensur that knowledge flows between academia and the health tech industry. This shared environment ensures that innovations are not only tested for technical performance but also evaluated for their real-world impact on the people and organisations they are designed to serve.
How the studio supports you
Product owners & UX researchers
Whether you’re developing a new patient portal, refining an AI-driven decision support, or preparing a product for market entry, the Digital Health Test Studio provides the infrastructure and clinical access you need to validate with real users. Advanced research tools enable you to gather actionable insights in a healthcare context.
Partnering with ELLLA means working alongside experienced researchers who understand both the scientific and practical dimensions of digital health evaluation. The result: evidence you can trust, and insights that move your product forward.
Clinical & academic researchers
The Digital Health Test Studio offers a controlled yet realistic environment for conducting user research and evaluation studies. This provides ethical and practical advantages.
The studio’s integration with Amsterdam UMC’s research infrastructure and the Human Factors Engineering line in the Department of Medical Informatics ensures that you can design and execute genuinely innovative, scientifically rigorous studies that generate publishable evidence on the usability, safety, and effectiveness of digital health technologies.
Students & educators
The Digital Health Test Studio is deeply integrated into the Bachelor and Master’s programmes in Medical Informatics at the University of Amsterdam and also serves medical students and students of Amsterdam UMC’s professional Masters in Health Informatics. We also offer training for PhD students and professionals.
Students on these courses can engage with the studio through courses, research projects, and internships, developing hands-on expertise in evaluation methods while investigating real-world research questions.
Partner with ELLLA
Whether you’re a health tech company seeking to validate your product with clinical end-users, a researcher looking for a state-of-the-art evaluation environment, or an educator wanting to give students hands-on experience with digital health research, the Digital Health Test Studio offers the infrastructure, expertise, and access you need.
Get in touch with ELLLA to discuss how the Digital Health Test Studio can support your goals.