Table 2.

Potential benefits reported by patients regarding the use of biometric monitoring devices (BMDs) and artificial intelligence (AI) in their care (n = 985)

Categories and example of quotes	% of patients eliciting the idea (Raw)	% of patients eliciting the idea (Weighted)
Improving access to care “Care can happen everywhere. [This will help in] adjusting treatment remotely and preventing complications.” (41-year-old woman with a digestive condition)	15	12
Improving the follow-up of patients with chronic conditions “Connected applications and tools will help patients in monitoring their symptoms by guiding their observations and informing them. This will reassure them, help them to better know themselves and their diseases. This will help their caregivers in their diagnoses.” (30-year-old woman with chronic ulcerative colitis)	61	55
Reducing the burden of treatment “The development of remote could make life easier for patients and save doctors' time, especially in rural areas. This will free-up emergency services. … It could also reduce the number of "duplicate" procedures by facilitating the—regulated—access by all caregivers to the patient’s data, thus saving time for everyone.” (61-year-old man with a thyroiditis disease and polyps)	31	23
Improving caregivers’ work “Technology will help avoiding missing … the diagnosis of rare diseases for which the first symptoms are not always obvious. This may help doctors who are not specialists in these rare diseases.” (62-year-old woman with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and interstitial pneumonia)	21	21
Improving communication in care “Precise data will complement what the patient is saying …. It will replace questionnaires and box ticking.” (27-year-old woman with asthma)	17	12
Improving prevention of diseases (primary or secondary) “Artificial intelligence makes it possible to detect cancer earlier with image recognition.” (38-year-old woman with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis)	2	3
Improving the safety of care “Diagnosis will be faster, more accurate and with less risk of errors” (61-year-old man with a thyroiditis disease and polyps)	8	7
Economic and environmental friendly solutions for care “Reducing the storage of paper medical records will be better for the planet” (54-year-old woman with depression)	6	5
Accelerating research “Analysis of very large number of data on targeted populations will allow [researchers] to refine the possible causes of pathologies and their evolution over time without necessarily requiring the implementation of costly and sometimes dangerous clinical tests for patients.” (54-year-old man with multiple sclerosis)	6	5

Categories presented were defined by thematic analysis of patients’ open-ended answers