TRANSFoRm eHealth solution for quality of life monitoring

AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2016 Jul 20:2016:231-9. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

Patient Recorded Outcome Measures (PROMs) are an essential part of quality of life monitoring, clinical trials, improvement studies and other medical tasks. Recently, web and mobile technologies have been explored as means of improving the response rates and quality of data collected. Despite the potential benefit of this approach, there are currently no widely accepted standards for developing or implementing PROMs in CER (Comparative Effectiveness Research). Within the European Union project Transform (Translational Research and Patient Safety in Europe) an eHealth solution for quality of life monitoring has been developed and validated. This paper presents the overall architecture of the system as well as a detailed description of the mobile and web applications.

Keywords: Android; CROM (Clinician-Reported Outcome Measures); Clinical Trials; GORD; PROM (Patient-Reported Outcome Measures); TRANSFoRm; eHealth; iOS.