mHealth Intelligence October 9, 2017
A committee of healthcare officials and FDA executives at Duke University has issued an action plan for incorporating consumer-facing mHealth data and devices into clinical trials.
A group of mHealth experts brought together by Duke University’s Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy has drafted an action plan to integrate consumer-facing mHealth technology into clinical trials.
The 39-page plan, “Mobilizing mHealth Innovation for Real-World Evidence Generation,” examines the different types of data being generated by consumer-grade devices, such as wearables and apps, and offers five recommendations to make that data relevant to healthcare.
“There is not yet a clear path for how mHealth technologies can reliably and efficiently elicit, validate, and transmit relevant data, and such data are currently not being collected...