A digital health solution to collect innovative real-life data for cohort studies and digital biomarker development

Short summary A research organisation from Luxembourg has developed a health data collection app that provides a 360° view of participants with real-life data (consent, questionnaires, voice, wearables data, etc). The app is the ideal tool for clinical and epidemiological cohort studies, for remote patient monitoring and for the development of digital biomarkers. R&D cooperation and commercialization agreements are sought.

Full description The app developed by the Luxembourg-based research organization is intended to help researchers, pharma companies, and contract research organizations (CROs), who need one comprehensive solution to cover all their data collection needs. The solution is particularly useful for clinical and epidemiological cohort studies, remote patient monitoring, and for identification of novel clinical endpoints and novel digital biomarkers. It also is perfectly suited for companies in the field of medical devices or health-tech innovation wanting to validate their technology with high-quality data collected from the field. The app is modular and fully customizable to fit any research and existing workflows. It collects various real-life data such as consent, questionnaires (electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs)), voice, images, wearables data, GPS, and timestamps with a user-friendly and appealing interface, and can register and manage participants for longitudinal data collection. The solution is already being used in national and international epidemiological studies in order to identify digital biomarkers and improve medical care for patients. The studies using this technology yielded significant results and identified candidates for vocal biomarkers to diagnose Type I&II Diabetes, and to predict a patient’s risk for long COVID. Features: The solution works on Android and iOS end devices, and as a progressive web app to maximize the ease of use by the participants. More specifically, the application allows the researcher to create questionnaires with various input types: dropdown, checkbox, radiogroup, rating, text questions with text or numeric input, voice recordings, or image capture. Questionnaires are displayed to the end user in an intuitive chat format. Data quality is enhanced with built-in internal logic/input controls while generating the questionnaires. The application was developed with privacy by design principles and to comply with GDPR with its mandatory informed consent prior to data collection and other security measures. The collected data can be stored at any defined location, depending on the project’s specifications. A central study management module is currently being developed. The study management module is a user-friendly non-coding interface for researchers to customize the study setup, design questionnaires, track participants, manage schedules and notifications, as well as customize dashboards for real-time data visualization. The research institute is looking for co-development partnerships such as R&D cooperation agreements as well as partnerships for the commercialization of the product.

Advantages and innovations - Collection of innovative real-life data (questionnaires, voice, selfies, wearables) - Longitudinal data collection for remote patient monitoring and follow-up in clinical/epidemiological studies - Identification of novel clinical endpoints and digital biomarkers - User-friendly non-coding interface, secure and GDPR compliant
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