Table 3.

Summary of research apps.

Study	App name	Element of palliative care	Target user	Description
Agboola et al (2014) [19]; Fishbein et al (2017) [20]	CORA	Symptom management	Patients on oral anticancer medication	Provides daily educational and/or support push notifications, offers symptom reporting and strategies for symptom management, weekly symptom and activity reports, and is customizable to patient needs, abilities, and medications.
Agboola et al (2014) [21]	ePAL	Symptom management	Patients with cancer	Offers on-demand pain assessments, daily educational and/or support push notifications, multimedia resource library including psychosocial support material, prescription refills, and ability to personalize based on self-reported barriers to pain management. Also facilitates patient-provider communication through direct call button and provider access to patient-entered information.
Alnosayan et al (2017) [22]	MyHeart	Symptom management	Patients with heart failure	Symptom tracking and reminders for missing data available through app and sensor technologies. Educational and motivational messages sent daily.
Athilingam et al (2016) [23]	HeartMapp	Symptom management	Patients with heart failure	Offers symptom and vitals tracking through app and sensor technologies, exercises, and heart failure educational resources
Cox et al (2018) [24]	PCplanner	Decision support	Convoy	Family members of patients admitted to the intensive care unit can access palliative care educational resources and complete a needs assessment. Electronic health record triggers allow provider to approve palliative care consultation for patients based on health status and family request through app.
Foster (2018) [25]	HF App	Symptom management	Patients aged >50 years with heart failure	Offers daily symptom and vitals tracking and heart failure educational resources.
Hardinge et al (2015) [26]	Not applicable	Symptom management	Patients aged >50 years with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	Offers symptom and well-being diary, including optional recording of medication use, collected through app and sensor technologies. Personalized plans for self-management and educational material also included.
Moradian et al (2018) [27]	ASyMS	Symptom management	Patients with cancer	Offers functionalities for monitoring and managing chemotherapy-related toxicity with personalized risk prediction modeling and decision support. High-severity symptom reports alert clinicians.
Triantafyllidis et al (2015) [28]	SUPPORT-HF	Symptom management	Patients with heart failure	Offers symptom tracking and reports, educational material, and ability to communicate with clinicians through app.