Key components of successful digital remote monitoring in oncology

Wells, Mary

doi:10.1038/s41591-022-01841-z

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“…To our knowledge, and based on a search of the literature, the Gather Group app is quite unique in its features and approach. Most digital supportive care programs tend to focus on either facilitating communication between a patient and health professionals (e.g., provision of telehealth ( 29 ), remote nursing support ( 30 , 31 ), counselling ( 32 , 33 ) or they focus on assisting the individual to more successfully self-manage their condition ( 34 , 35 ). In contrast, the Gather Group app seeks to enhance the network of family members and friends surrounding a patient to enable them to provide support.…”

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Evaluation of a supportive care app for coordinating caring networks: an analysis of the first 19,000 users

Singh

Palmer²,

Maher

2023

Front. Digit. Health

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BackgroundMajor illnesses such as cancer, and other traumatic life events, can lead to sudden increases in supportive care needs. This study aimed to describe engagement, acceptability and satisfaction with a supportive care networking app under real-world conditions.MethodsA total of 10,952 individuals used the app during the study period (2018–2022). The app is designed to enable “captains” to assemble a network of friends and family members to provide timely, and individually tailored, supportive care (including assistance with tasks such as taking children to school, cooking meals, grocery shopping, and transport to appointments). Engagement was determined from server data, whilst acceptability and satisfaction were captured using purposed-designed surveys.ResultsUsers were mostly female (76%) and aged between 30 and 49 years (61%). The most common reason for using the app was sudden illness (web: 81%; mobile: 64%). An average of 42 tasks were requested per network, with a 32% acceptance rate. Significantly more tasks were requested (web: 52.2 tasks per network; mobile: 31.7 tasks per network; p < 0.001) and accepted (web: 43.2%; mobile: 20.2%; p < 0.001) in the web app vs. the mobile app. Task requests in the web app most commonly related to food (43% of requested tasks), social (15% of requested tasks) and children (13% of requested tasks). The task acceptance rate differed by task categories (p < 0.001), with tasks relating to transport, medical appointments and children accepted at the highest rates (56%, 52% and 49%, respectively). Acceptability and satisfaction data suggested that the app was well received and overall, participants were satisfied with the app.ConclusionFindings suggested that this support care networking app achieved widespread uptake for a wide variety of supportive care tasks. Future research focused on optimizing engagement with the mobile app and examining the effectiveness of the app for improving patient and hospital outcomes is warranted.

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Evaluation of a supportive care app for coordinating caring networks: an analysis of the first 19,000 users

Singh

Palmer²,

Maher

2023

Front. Digit. Health

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“…The input of nurses is critical to ensure RHM data collection are feasible and ethical, and that results are interpreted and utilized to develop interventions that are safe, actionable, and clinically relevant. Nurses also play a key role in facilitating patient uptake of RHM technology; for example, Wells (2022) specifically attributes the success of a remote health intervention designed to support patients taking oral anticancer therapy to the expertise of oncology nurse navigators who provided the critical link between patients, clinicians, and the technology ( 21 ) . In short, nurses are experts at assessing and monitoring patients, and their expertise is essential in building technology that does the same.…”

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Challenges and Opportunities in Designing and Deploying Remote Health Monitoring Technology for Older Adults With Cancer

LeBaron

2022

Innovation in Aging

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Remote health monitoring (RHM) technologies (e.g., wearables, smart phones, embedded sensors, telehealth platforms) offer significant opportunities to improve health and wellness for older adults facing serious illness. This paper highlights key challenges and opportunities for designing and deploying RHM systems in the context of caring for older adults with cancer, with an emphasis on the key role nurses can play in this work. Focal topics include user-centered design; interdisciplinary collaboration; addressing health inequities and disparities; privacy and data security; participant recruitment and burden; personalized and tailored care; rapid technological change; family caregiver perspectives; and naturalistic data collection. It is critical for nurses to be aware of both challenges and opportunities within each of these areas in order to develop RHM systems that are optimally beneficial for patients, family caregivers, clinicians, and organizations. By leveraging their unique knowledge of the illness experience from the patient, family, and healthcare provider perspective, nurses can make essential clinical and scientific contributions to advance the field of RHM.

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The dominant logic of Big Tech in healthcare and pharma

Schuhmacher

Haefner

Honsberg³

et al. 2023

Drug Discovery Today

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Key components of successful digital remote monitoring in oncology

Abstract: A phase 3 trial highlights the importance of problem-led design, multidisciplinary commitment and patient-reported outcomes -with skilled oncology nurses having a crucial role.

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Evaluation of a supportive care app for coordinating caring networks: an analysis of the first 19,000 users

Evaluation of a supportive care app for coordinating caring networks: an analysis of the first 19,000 users

Challenges and Opportunities in Designing and Deploying Remote Health Monitoring Technology for Older Adults With Cancer

The dominant logic of Big Tech in healthcare and pharma

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