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. 2016 Jan 31:2:2.
doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2306-9740.2016.01.02. eCollection 2016.

mHealth and big data will bring meaning and value to patient-reported outcomes

Anne Weiler  1
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mHealth and big data will bring meaning and value to patient-reported outcomes

Anne Weiler. Mhealth. .

Abstract

The intersection of widespread mobile adoption, cloud computing and healthcare will enable patient-reported outcomes to be used to personalize care, draw insights and shorten the cycle from research to clinical implementation. Today, patient-reported outcomes are largely collected as part of a regulatory shift to value-based or bundled care. When patients are able to record their experiences in real-time and combine them with passive data collection from sensors and mobile devices, this information can inform better care for each patient and contribute to the growing body of health data that can be used to draw insights for all patients. This paper explores the current limitations of patient reported outcomes and how mobile health and big data analysis unlocks their potential as a valuable tool to deliver care.

Keywords: Mobile technology; big data; mHealth; patient-reported outcomes.

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Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Evolution of patient reported outcomes.
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