Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Goal: The aim of the study herein reported was to review mobile health (mHealth) technologies and explore their use to monitor and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A Task Force was assembled by recruiting individuals with expertise in electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes (ePRO), wearable sensors, and digital contact tracing technologies. Its members collected and discussed available information and summarized it in a series of reports. Results: The Task Force identified technologies that could be deployed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and would likely be suitable for future pandemics. Criteria for their evaluation were agreed upon and applied to these systems. Conclusions: mHealth technologies are viable options to monitor COVID-19 patients and be used to predict symptom escalation for earlier intervention. These technologies could also be utilized to monitor individuals who are presumed non-infected and enable prediction of exposure to SARS-CoV-2, thus facilitating the prioritization of diagnostic testing.

William J. Tharion | Nigel H. Lovell | Paolo Bonato | Tanya Talkar | May D. Wang | Ross Zafonte | Danilo Demarchi | Dina Katabi | Guillermo J. Tearney | Tauhidur Rahman | Thomas Quatieri | Rushdy Ahmad | M. Kelley Erb | John A. Rogers | Karl E. Friedl | Roozbeh Ghaffari | Catherine P. Adans-Dester | Stacy Bamberg | Francesco P. Bertacchi | Brian Caulfield | Kara Chappie | Juan Estrada | Eric E. Fabara | Michael Freni | Geoffrey Gill | Mark S. Greenberg | Reed W. Hoyt | Emil Jovanov | Christoph M. Kanzler | Meredith Kernan | Colleen Kigin | Sunghoon I. Lee | Steffen Leonhardt | Jose Mantilla | Thomas H. McCoy | Nell Meosky Luo | Glenn A. Miller | John Moore | Derek O'Keeffe | Jeffrey Palmer | Federico Parisi | Shyamal Patel | Jack Po | Benito L. Pugliese | Nathan Ramasarma | Guillermo U. Ruiz-Esparza | Stefano Sapienza | Gregory Schiurring | Lee Schwamm | Hadi Shafiee | Sara Kelly Silacci | Nathaniel M Sims | James A. Toombs | Christopher Uschnig | Gloria P. Vergara-Diaz | Paul Wacnik | James Welch | Lina Williamson | Adrian Zai | Yuan-Ting Zhang | David R. Walt | Adrian H. Zai | S. Leonhardt | Kara Chappie | D. Katabi | P. Bonato | R. Ghaffari | T. McCoy | N. Lovell | T. Quatieri | Shyamal Patel | L. Schwamm | R. Zafonte | D. Walt | S. Bamberg | B. Caulfield | E. Jovanov | E. Fabara | C. Adans-Dester | G. Tearney | K. Friedl | H. Shafiee | S. Lee | R. Hoyt | D. Demarchi | W. Tharion | T. Rahman | Tanya Talkar | G. U. Ruiz‐Esparza | Jeff Palmer | J. Estrada | C. Kanzler | N. Sims | James Welch | M. Erb | M. Greenberg | P. Wacnik | G. Vergara-Diaz | Geoffrey Gill | Stefano Sapienza | John Moore | May D. Wang | G. Miller | J. Toombs | C. Kigin | Meredith Kernan | L. Williamson | D. O‘Keeffe | N. M. Luo | John A. Rogers | Christopher Uschnig | Federico Parisi | B. Pugliese | Nathan Ramasarma | Francesco P. Bertacchi | R. Ahmad | Michael Freni | J. Mantilla | Jack Po | Gregory Schiurring | Sara Kelly Silacci | Yuan-Ting Zhang

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