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. 2025 Aug 25;13:e66605. doi: 10.2196/66605

Table 1. PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) framework for study eligibility.

Criteria		Description
Population		Patients >18 years of age treated for suspected acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in prehospital or hospital setting eligible to receive primary intervention (percutaneous coronary intervention or lysis where applicable).
Intervention
	Inclusion criteria	Smartphone or tablet-enabled mobile apps. Used by health care provider. Cloud-based ECG^a transmission. Real-time communication between relevant health care providers or stakeholders involved in the chain of care in acute STEMI^b.
	Exclusion criteria	Patient-centered app usage. Chronic care or postmyocardial infarction management. Nonmobile or cellular-enabled telemedicine. Posthoc communication (ie, not enabled in real time). Focus on qualitative or technical process–related outcomes.
Comparator		Patients treated for suspected acute STEMI using traditional communication methods (ie, nonmobile data sources or tablet app–based communication) between relevant stakeholders.
Outcomes		Reperfusion times (door to balloon and first medical contact to balloon), proportion of patients meeting targets (eg, D2B^c <90 min and FMC2B^d <120 min), false activation rate, and clinical events (eg, mortality and heart failure).

^a

ECG: electrocardiogram.

^b

STEMI: ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.

^c

D2B: door to balloon.

^d

FMC2B: first medical contact to balloon time.