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. 2013 May 1;7(3):602–611. doi: 10.1177/193229681300700304

Table 1.

Mobile-Integrated Therapy Elements

  • Mobile device and/or Web portals for health care providers, patients, and caregivers

  • Incorporation of evidence-based guidelines with team-based health care

  • FDA-cleared, prescription only, indicated for use to support the management of a particular disease(s)

  • Clinical and behavioral data collection, storage, and analysis
    • Logging patient-entered data (e.g., food consumption, blood glucose values)
    • Integral sensors (e.g., energy expenditure derived from global positioning system and accelerometer inputs in mobile phones)
    • Interfaces to wearable or embedded sensors (e.g., continuous glucose monitor)
  • Integrated behavioral and clinical content that serves as a foundation for evidence-based intervention design and delivery

  • Automated, personalized, tailored, and contextual patient coaching that supports self-management of healthy behaviors, medication regimens, symptoms, and physiologic measures; coaching shall include both real-time and longitudinally based feedback messaging in response to data entered and analyzed; messaging is temporally tailored and delivered to the patient in an engaging manner

  • Automated, patient-specific clinical decision support for providers that enhances adherence to evidence-based clinical guidelines and is presented in the format that best fits their workflow

  • Outcomes reporting at a patient, population, provider, and program level

  • Established processes for prescribing, training end users, and providing ongoing customer care and product support