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.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, wearable sensors, digital contact tracing, electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO), mHealth technology, 【초록키워드】 SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 pandemic, diagnostic, Contact tracing, Intervention, Symptom, Mobile health, Pandemics, information, predict, Escalation, COVID-19 patient, individual, force, MONITOR, Effect, mitigate, non-infected, collected, reported, applied, 【제목키워드】 technology, Effect, Can,