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A Vendor-Independent Mobile Health Monitoring Platform for Digital Health Studies: Development and Usability Study

BACKGROUND: Medical smartphone apps and mobile health devices are rapidly entering mainstream use because of the rising number of smartphone users. Consequently, a large amount of consumer-generated data is being collected. Technological advances in innovative sensory systems have enabled data conne...

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Autores principales: Vandenberk, Thijs, Storms, Valerie, Lanssens, Dorien, De Cannière, Hélène, Smeets, Christophe JP, Thijs, Inge M, Batool, Tooba, Vanrompay, Yves, Vandervoort, Pieter M, Grieten, Lars
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Publicado: JMIR Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7017647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31663862
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12586
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author Vandenberk, Thijs
Storms, Valerie
Lanssens, Dorien
De Cannière, Hélène
Smeets, Christophe JP
Thijs, Inge M
Batool, Tooba
Vanrompay, Yves
Vandervoort, Pieter M
Grieten, Lars
author_facet Vandenberk, Thijs
Storms, Valerie
Lanssens, Dorien
De Cannière, Hélène
Smeets, Christophe JP
Thijs, Inge M
Batool, Tooba
Vanrompay, Yves
Vandervoort, Pieter M
Grieten, Lars
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description BACKGROUND: Medical smartphone apps and mobile health devices are rapidly entering mainstream use because of the rising number of smartphone users. Consequently, a large amount of consumer-generated data is being collected. Technological advances in innovative sensory systems have enabled data connectivity and aggregation to become cornerstones in developing workable solutions for remote monitoring systems in clinical practice. However, few systems are currently available to handle such data, especially for clinical use. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to develop and implement the digital health research platform for mobile health (DHARMA) that combines data saved in different formats from a variety of sources into a single integrated digital platform suitable for mobile remote monitoring studies. METHODS: DHARMA comprises a smartphone app, a Web-based platform, and custom middleware and has been developed to collect, store, process, and visualize data from different vendor-specific sensors. The middleware is a component-based system with independent building blocks for user authentication, study and patient administration, data handling, questionnaire management, patient files, and reporting. RESULTS: A prototype version of the research platform has been tested and deployed in multiple clinical studies. In this study, we used the platform for the follow-up of pregnant women at risk of developing pre-eclampsia. The patients’ blood pressure, weight, and activity were semi-automatically captured at home using different devices. DHARMA automatically collected and stored data from each source and enabled data processing for the end users in terms of study-specific parameters, thresholds, and visualization. CONCLUSIONS: The increasing use of mobile health apps and connected medical devices is leading to a large amount of data for collection. There has been limited investment in handling and aggregating data from different sources for use in academic and clinical research focusing on remote monitoring studies. In this study, we created a modular mobile health research platform to collect and integrate data from a variety of third-party devices in several patient populations. The functionality of the platform was demonstrated in a real-life setting among women with high-risk pregnancies.
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spelling pubmed-70176472020-03-05 A Vendor-Independent Mobile Health Monitoring Platform for Digital Health Studies: Development and Usability Study Vandenberk, Thijs Storms, Valerie Lanssens, Dorien De Cannière, Hélène Smeets, Christophe JP Thijs, Inge M Batool, Tooba Vanrompay, Yves Vandervoort, Pieter M Grieten, Lars JMIR Mhealth Uhealth Original Paper BACKGROUND: Medical smartphone apps and mobile health devices are rapidly entering mainstream use because of the rising number of smartphone users. Consequently, a large amount of consumer-generated data is being collected. Technological advances in innovative sensory systems have enabled data connectivity and aggregation to become cornerstones in developing workable solutions for remote monitoring systems in clinical practice. However, few systems are currently available to handle such data, especially for clinical use. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to develop and implement the digital health research platform for mobile health (DHARMA) that combines data saved in different formats from a variety of sources into a single integrated digital platform suitable for mobile remote monitoring studies. METHODS: DHARMA comprises a smartphone app, a Web-based platform, and custom middleware and has been developed to collect, store, process, and visualize data from different vendor-specific sensors. The middleware is a component-based system with independent building blocks for user authentication, study and patient administration, data handling, questionnaire management, patient files, and reporting. RESULTS: A prototype version of the research platform has been tested and deployed in multiple clinical studies. In this study, we used the platform for the follow-up of pregnant women at risk of developing pre-eclampsia. The patients’ blood pressure, weight, and activity were semi-automatically captured at home using different devices. DHARMA automatically collected and stored data from each source and enabled data processing for the end users in terms of study-specific parameters, thresholds, and visualization. CONCLUSIONS: The increasing use of mobile health apps and connected medical devices is leading to a large amount of data for collection. There has been limited investment in handling and aggregating data from different sources for use in academic and clinical research focusing on remote monitoring studies. In this study, we created a modular mobile health research platform to collect and integrate data from a variety of third-party devices in several patient populations. The functionality of the platform was demonstrated in a real-life setting among women with high-risk pregnancies. JMIR Publications 2019-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7017647/ /pubmed/31663862 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12586 Text en ©Thijs Vandenberk, Valerie Storms, Dorien Lanssens, Hélène De Cannière, Christophe JP Smeets, Inge M Thijs, Tooba Batool, Yves Vanrompay, Pieter M Vandervoort, Lars Grieten. Originally published in JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 29.10.2019. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR mhealth and uhealth, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mhealth.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Vandenberk, Thijs
Storms, Valerie
Lanssens, Dorien
De Cannière, Hélène
Smeets, Christophe JP
Thijs, Inge M
Batool, Tooba
Vanrompay, Yves
Vandervoort, Pieter M
Grieten, Lars
A Vendor-Independent Mobile Health Monitoring Platform for Digital Health Studies: Development and Usability Study
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title_fullStr A Vendor-Independent Mobile Health Monitoring Platform for Digital Health Studies: Development and Usability Study
title_full_unstemmed A Vendor-Independent Mobile Health Monitoring Platform for Digital Health Studies: Development and Usability Study
title_short A Vendor-Independent Mobile Health Monitoring Platform for Digital Health Studies: Development and Usability Study
title_sort vendor-independent mobile health monitoring platform for digital health studies: development and usability study
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7017647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31663862
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12586
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