Regulatory considerations to keep pace with innovation in digital health products

J Torous, AD Stern, FT Bourgeois - NPJ Digital Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid innovation and proliferation of software as a medical device have accelerated the
clinical use of digital technologies across a wide array of medical conditions. Current …

Decentralized clinical trials and rare diseases: A drug information association innovative design scientific working group (DIA-IDSWG) perspective

M Ghadessi, J Di, C Wang, K Toyoizumi… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Traditional clinical trials require tests and procedures that are administered in
centralized clinical research sites, which are beyond the standard of care that patients …

A consensus statement for continuous glucose monitoring metrics for inpatient clinical trials

EK Spanakis, CB Cook, K Kulasa… - Journal of diabetes …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Diabetes Technology Society organized an expert consensus panel to develop metrics for
research in the use of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) in a hospital setting. The experts …

Individual-specific change points in circadian rest-activity rhythm and sleep in individuals tapering their antidepressant medication: an actigraphy study

O Minaeva, E Schat, E Ceulemans, YK Kunkels… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Group-level studies showed associations between depressive symptoms and circadian
rhythm elements, though whether these associations replicate at the within-person level …

Increasing the value of digital phenotyping through reducing missingness: a retrospective review and analysis of prior studies

D Currey, J Torous - BMJ Ment Health, 2023 - mentalhealth.bmj.com
Background Digital phenotyping methods present a scalable tool to realise the potential of
personalised medicine. But underlying this potential is the need for digital phenotyping data …

Unleashing the full potential of digital outcome measures in clinical trials: eight questions that need attention

MS Tackney, JR Carpenter, SS Villar - BMC medicine, 2024 - Springer
The use of digital health technologies to measure outcomes in clinical trials opens new
opportunities as well as methodological challenges. Digital outcome measures may provide …

[HTML][HTML] The Importance of Data Quality Control in Using Fitbit Device Data From the All of Us Research Program

L Lederer, A Breton, H Jeong, H Master… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2023 - mhealth.jmir.org
Wearable digital health technologies (DHTs) have become increasingly popular in recent
years, enabling more capabilities to assess behaviors and physiology in free-living …

Opportunities and challenges for decentralised clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative study

EI Nebie, HN Sawadogo, P van Eeuwijk, A Signorell… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Digital health has gained traction in research and development, and clinical
decision support systems. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of …

[HTML][HTML] Examining associations between smartphone use and clinical severity in frontotemporal dementia: proof-of-concept study

EW Paolillo, KB Casaletto, AL Clark, JC Taylor… - JMIR aging, 2024 - aging.jmir.org
Background: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a leading cause of dementia in
individuals aged< 65 years. Several challenges to conducting in-person evaluations in …

Digital endpoints in clinical trials: emerging themes from a multi-stakeholder Knowledge Exchange event

MS Tackney, A Steele, J Newman, MC Fritzsche… - Trials, 2024 - Springer
Background Digital technologies, such as wearable devices and smartphone applications
(apps), can enable the decentralisation of clinical trials by measuring endpoints in people's …