Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for study participants

Inclusion	Exclusion
• Newly initiated (in-hospital or outpatient), defined as within 2 months, on a ventilator for HMV prescribed by a participating clinic	• Projected life expectancy of ≤ 2 months
• Reads, writes, and understands English. If patient does not meet this criterion, they have a caregiver that does	• Significant cognitive impairment and absence/inability of a family caregiver able to use aTouchAway™ or complete questionnaires on the subject’s behalf
• Provides informed consent	• Uncontrolled psychiatric illness
• Live in a non-institutionalized setting	• Enrolled in a research study to evaluate another eHealth platform or care coordination model of care
	• Plan to move outside of province in the next 12 months