Standardized assessment of evidence supporting the adoption of mobile health solutions: A Clinical Consensus Statement of the ESC Regulatory Affairs Committee

Caiani, Enrico G, Kemps, Hareld, Hoogendoorn, Petra, Asteggiano, Riccardo, Böhm, Allan, Borregaard, Britt, Boriani, Giuseppe, Brunner La Rocca, Hans-Peter, Casado-Arroyo, Ruben, Castelletti, Silvia, Christodorescu, Ruxandra Maria, Cowie, Martin R, Dendale, Paul, Dunn, Fiona, Fraser, Alan G, Lane, Deirdre A, Locati, Emanuela T, Małaczyńska-Rajpold, Katarzyna, Merșa, Caius O, Neubeck, Lis, Parati, Gianfranco, Plummer, Chris, Rosano, Giuseppe, Scherrenberg, Martijn, Smirthwaite, Amie and Szymanski, Piotr 2024. Standardized assessment of evidence supporting the adoption of mobile health solutions: A Clinical Consensus Statement of the ESC Regulatory Affairs Committee. European Heart Journal – Digital Health 5 (5) , pp. 509-523. 10.1093/ehjdh/ztae042

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Abstract

Mobile health (mHealth) solutions have the potential to improve self-management and clinical care. For successful integration into routine clinical practice, healthcare professionals (HCPs) need accepted criteria helping the mHealth solutions’ selection, while patients require transparency to trust their use. Information about their evidence, safety and security may be hard to obtain and consensus is lacking on the level of required evidence. The new Medical Device Regulation is more stringent than its predecessor, yet its scope does not span all intended uses and several difficulties remain. The European Society of Cardiology Regulatory Affairs Committee set up a Task Force to explore existing assessment frameworks and clinical and cost-effectiveness evidence. This knowledge was used to propose criteria with which HCPs could evaluate mHealth solutions spanning diagnostic support, therapeutics, remote follow-up and education, specifically for cardiac rhythm management, heart failure and preventive cardiology. While curated national libraries of health apps may be helpful, their requirements and rigour in initial and follow-up assessments may vary significantly. The recently developed CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2 health app quality assessment framework has the potential to address this issue and to become a widely used and efficient tool to help drive decision-making internationally. The Task Force would like to stress the importance of co-development of solutions with relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of health information in apps to ensure these remain evidence-based and consistent with best practice. Several general and domain-specific criteria are advised to assist HCPs in their assessment of clinical evidence to provide informed advice to patients about mHealth utilization.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Additional Information:	Developed in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions (ACNAP) of the ESC, the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC, the ESC Young Community, the ESC Working Group on e-Cardiology, the ESC Council for Cardiology Practice, the ESC Council of Cardio-Oncology, the ESC Council on Hypertension, the ESC Patient Forum, the ESC Digital Health Committee, and the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, Type: cc-by-nc
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 September 2024
Date of Acceptance:	14 May 2024
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2024 09:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172341

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