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

Catherine P. Adans-Dester; Stacy Bamberg; Francesco P. Bertacchi; Brian Caulfield; Kara Chappie; Danilo Demarchi; M. Kelley Erb; Juan Estrada; Eric E. Fabara; Michael Freni; Karl E. Friedl; Roozbeh Ghaffari; Geoffrey Gill; Mark S. Greenberg; Reed W. Hoyt; Emil Jovanov; Christoph M. Kanzler; Dina Katabi; Meredith Kernan; Colleen Kigin; Sunghoon I. Lee; Steffen Leonhardt; Nigel H. Lovell; 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; Thomas Quatieri; Tauhidur Rahman; Nathan Ramasarma; John A. Rogers; Guillermo U. Ruiz-Esparza; Stefano Sapienza; Gregory Schiurring; Lee Schwamm; Hadi Shafiee; Sara Kelly Silacci; Nathaniel M. Sims; Tanya Talkar; William J. Tharion; James A. Toombs; Christopher Uschnig; Gloria P. Vergara-Diaz; Paul Wacnik; May D. Wang; James Welch; Lina Williamson; Ross Zafonte; Adrian Zai; Yuan Ting Zhang; Guillermo J. Tearney; Rushdy Ahmad; David R. Walt; Paolo Bonato

doi:10.1109/OJEMB.2020.3015141

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

Catherine P. Adans-Dester, Stacy Bamberg, Francesco P. Bertacchi, Brian Caulfield, Kara Chappie, Danilo Demarchi, M. Kelley Erb, Juan Estrada, Eric E. Fabara, Michael Freni, Karl E. Friedl, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Geoffrey Gill, Mark S. Greenberg, Reed W. Hoyt, Emil Jovanov, Christoph M. Kanzler, Dina Katabi, Meredith Kernan, Colleen KiginSunghoon I. Lee, Steffen Leonhardt, Nigel H. Lovell, 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, Thomas Quatieri, Tauhidur Rahman, Nathan Ramasarma, John A. Rogers, Guillermo U. Ruiz-Esparza, Stefano Sapienza, Gregory Schiurring, Lee Schwamm, Hadi Shafiee, Sara Kelly Silacci, Nathaniel M. Sims, Tanya Talkar, William J. Tharion, James A. Toombs, Christopher Uschnig, Gloria P. Vergara-Diaz, Paul Wacnik, May D. Wang, James Welch, Lina Williamson, Ross Zafonte, Adrian Zai, Yuan Ting Zhang, Guillermo J. Tearney, Rushdy Ahmad, David R. Walt, Paolo Bonato^*

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QSIB - Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9162431
Pages (from-to)	243-248
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Volume	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/OJEMB.2020.3015141
State	Published - 2020

Keywords

COVID-19
digital contact tracing
electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO)
mHealth technology
wearable sensors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering

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Adans-Dester, C. P., Bamberg, S., Bertacchi, F. P., Caulfield, B., Chappie, K., Demarchi, D., Erb, M. K., Estrada, J., Fabara, E. E., Freni, M., Friedl, K. E., Ghaffari, R., Gill, G., Greenberg, M. S., Hoyt, R. W., Jovanov, E., Kanzler, C. M., Katabi, D., Kernan, M., ... Bonato, P. (2020). Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic? IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1, 243-248. [9162431]. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJEMB.2020.3015141

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Adans-Dester, CP, Bamberg, S, Bertacchi, FP, Caulfield, B, Chappie, K, Demarchi, D, Erb, MK, Estrada, J, Fabara, EE, Freni, M, Friedl, KE, Ghaffari, R, Gill, G, Greenberg, MS, Hoyt, RW, Jovanov, E, Kanzler, CM, Katabi, D, Kernan, M, Kigin, C, Lee, SI, Leonhardt, S, Lovell, NH, Mantilla, J, McCoy, TH, Luo, NM, Miller, GA, Moore, J, O'Keeffe, D, Palmer, J, Parisi, F, Patel, S, Po, J, Pugliese, BL, Quatieri, T, Rahman, T, Ramasarma, N, Rogers, JA, Ruiz-Esparza, GU, Sapienza, S, Schiurring, G, Schwamm, L, Shafiee, H, Kelly Silacci, S, Sims, NM, Talkar, T, Tharion, WJ, Toombs, JA, Uschnig, C, Vergara-Diaz, GP, Wacnik, P, Wang, MD, Welch, J, Williamson, L, Zafonte, R, Zai, A, Zhang, YT, Tearney, GJ, Ahmad, R, Walt, DR & Bonato, P 2020, 'Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic?', IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, vol. 1, 9162431, pp. 243-248. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJEMB.2020.3015141