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Acceptability of a digital pulmonary rehabilitation app as an adjunct or alternative to usual care for people with chronic lung diseases: A qualitative study of patients’ views and experiences (EN)
by Knight-Davidson, P., Meshe, O.F., et al.
August 13, 2025
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Investigates the acceptability of a digital pulmonary rehabilitation app among individuals with chronic lung diseases, examining user perceptions of usability, digital literacy barriers, and suitability as an adjunct or alternative to centre-based programs.
Active+me REMOTE (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: App
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Active+me REMOTE is a smartphone app designed to support remote monitoring and self-management by enabling users to record symptoms, activities, and health-related measures for use within a telerehabilitation and remote care context.
AHP-KOS app (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: App
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The AHP-KOS mobile app is a digital health application designed to support remote monitoring and self-management by enabling users to report symptoms and health-related information for use within a telerehabilitation and remote care context.
App-Timizing Cardiac Rehabilitation: Enhancing Patient Engagement with Mobile Health Applications (EN)
by Tayon, K., Carlisle, A.E., et al.
October 15, 2024
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Reviews the role of mobile health applications in cardiac rehabilitation, examining how they can augment traditional center-based programs and support home-based models. The article highlights how apps can increase patient engagement, self-management, and access to rehabilitation services.
Baritrip App (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Smartphone App
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for patients undergoing bariatric surgery, as well as their clinicians and researchers
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Baritrip is a mobile application designed to support patients before and after bariatric surgery. It includes eight sections covering clinical, surgical, nutritional, mental-health, and speech-therapy domains across preoperative and multiple postoperative phases, and features tools for tracking appointments, lifestyle changes, and self-care.
Behavioural cough-suppression therapy (BCST) (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Assessment
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for individuals with chronic cough
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Behavioural Cough-Suppression Therapy (BCST) is a structured behavioral intervention that includes cough control techniques, breathing exercises, and education to support the management of chronic cough and can be delivered via telehealth.
CAN-Restore - Digital Tools for Physical Activity (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Resource Website
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for clinicians, researchers, and patients
BASIC DESCRIPTION: This website from the Canadian Network for Rehabilitation and Exercise for Solid Organ Transplant Optimal Recovery (CAN-RESTORE) provides a comparison guide of digital tools that support physical activity for transplant candidates and recipients. It summarizes apps and websites by exercise type, features, device compatibility, and transplant-specific adaptations.
Cardiac Rehabilitation During the COVID-19 Era: Guidance on Implementing Virtual Care (EN)
by Moulson, N., Bewick, D., et al.
June 13, 2020
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides a review of the potential challenges and obstacles of this process and aims to provide pragmatic guidance to aid clinicians and administrators during this challenging time (COVID-19).
ChestCare (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Smartphone App
TARGET POPULATION: Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or other chronic respiratory conditions; clinicians, researchers, and educators involved in pulmonary rehabilitation
BASIC DESCRIPTION: ChestCare is a smartphone app designed to support pulmonary telerehabilitation by providing symptom monitoring, functional assessments, personalized exercise programs, educational resources, and reminders. It facilitates ongoing self-management and helps integrate patient-reported information into remote or hybrid respiratory care.
CliniQuill (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Software
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for healthcare professionals
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Cliniquill is an artificial intelligence–based clinical documentation platform that assists healthcare professionals with medical transcription, note generation, and documentation workflows. The platform uses automated speech recognition and AI-supported processing to support clinical record keeping and administrative efficiency.
Comparison of Postoperative Telerehabilitation and Unsupervised Home-Based Training in Older Adults With Lung Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial (EN)
by Shin, Y.B., Huh, S., et al.
November 24, 2025
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article
TARGET POPULATION: Adults with cardiovascular disease participating in cardiac rehabilitation
BASIC DESCRIPTION: This research article examines the use of a structured cardiac rehabilitation approach to support recovery and secondary prevention, reporting on its effects on outcomes such as exercise capacity, symptoms, and quality of life, and discussing implications for integrating supervised and remote or hybrid rehabilitation models.
Covid-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale (C19-YRS) (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Assessment.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for clinicians and researchers.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides a comprehensive multi-system telephone screening tool to assess and capture symptoms and guide rehabilitation for COVID-19 survivors.
CRUSE - Chronic spontaneous urticaria monitoring (Germany) (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Smartphone App
TARGET POPULATION: Individuals living with chronic urticaria; clinicians, researchers, and educators interested in digital symptom-tracking tools
BASIC DESCRIPTION: CRUSE Control Urticaria is a smartphone app that allows users to track daily symptoms, disease activity, quality of life, and treatment response in chronic urticaria. It supports structured self-monitoring and enables users to generate a symptom report that can be shared with clinicians, helping integrate patient-reported information into remote or hybrid care.
Effectiveness of exercises by telerehabilitation on pain, physical function and quality of life in people with physical disabilities: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials with GRADE recommendations (EN)
by Dias, J.F., Oliveira, V.C. et al.
October 15, 2020
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Exercise by telerehabilitation may be an alternative to treat pain, physical function and quality of life in adults with physical disabilities when compared with other intervention.
Heart Farming (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Smartphone App
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Heart Farming is a mobile health application designed to promote cardiovascular self-management through structured lifestyle tracking, educational content, and behavior change support. The app integrates digital monitoring and guided activities to facilitate heart-healthy habits within a remote care and prevention framework.
Human Activity Profile (HAP) (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Assessment
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for individuals with varying levels of physical function
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The Human Activity Profile is a standardized self-report assessment that measures an individual’s functional ability and activity level based on the performance of daily activities of varying intensity. It provides a structured index of activity participation to support evaluation of functional capacity in clinical and rehabilitation settings.
Me & COPD (EN)
by Karlsson, A., Sonnerfors, P., et al.
June 23, 2025
TYPE OF TOOL: Smartphone App
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for patients, clinicians, and researchers
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Me & COPD is a mobile application designed to support home-based pulmonary rehabilitation in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The app offers guided exercise sessions, progress tracking, and self-management tools to enhance adherence and facilitate remote rehabilitation delivery.
ME-BYO Index (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: App
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The Me-Byo Index app is a smartphone-based health assessment app designed to capture self-reported and sensor-based data to quantify an individual’s health status across multiple physical and mental domains for monitoring over time.
Mobile Telemedicine Set for Cardiac Rehabilitation (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Assessment Tool.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for cardiac patients.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides a mobile set of tools that can be taken home by a client for remote ECG, blood pressure, glucose monitoring, and pulse oximeter and more. All measurements are digital and can be sent to remote clinicians.
OmaScan (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Software
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for healthcare professionals
BASIC DESCRIPTION: OMA Scan is a digital assessment platform that uses smartphone-based scanning technology to capture body measurements and posture-related data for clinical evaluation and monitoring. The platform supports remote assessment and documentation within rehabilitation and healthcare settings.
PaceMe App (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Smartphone application.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for athletes.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides a method to incorporate a wearable activity tracker (such as a Fitbit) with a data processing system where target heartrates can be calculated and tracked. Users can set alerts for certain target rates and times spent at rates.
Perspectives of Rehabilitation Professionals on Implementing a Validated Home Telerehabilitation Intervention for Older Adults in Geriatric Rehabilitation: Multisite Focus Group Study (EN)
by Pol, M., Qadeer, A., et. al.
July 18, 2023
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Describes the design and evaluation of a digital rehabilitation program for individuals with multiple sclerosis. The program delivers remote physical activity sessions, self-management strategies, and monitoring tools to support long-term function and quality of life.
TeGeCoach (Telephone Health Coaching and Remote Exercise Monitoring for Peripheral Artery Disease) (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Rehabilitation Program.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for clinicians.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides a year long telephone-based monitoring program to both change unhealthy habits and improve health outcomes in patients with peripheral Artery Disease. Participants are able to self-monitor their physical activity and receive feedback from their coaches.
Telerehabilitation as a Therapeutic Exercise Tool versus Face-to-Face Physiotherapy: A Systematic Review (EN)
by Muñoz-Tomás, M.T., Burillo-Lafuente, M. et al.
February 28, 2023
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Most of the studies concluded that physiotherapy interventions using telerehabilitation were at least as effective as traditional rehabilitation interventions and are considered feasible and effective options. In general, telerehabilitation interventions were shown to improve functional level and quality of life, as no significant differences with control groups were observed. This review provides information on patients’ high levels of satisfaction and adherence, with values equivalent to traditional rehabilitation in all cases.
Telerehabilitation service impact on physical function and adherence compared to face-to-face rehabilitation in patients with stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (EN)
by Munoz-Tomas, T., Burillo-Lafuente, M. et al.
May 04, 2023
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Most of the studies concluded that physiotherapy interventions using telerehabilitation were at least as effective as traditional rehabilitation interventions and are considered feasible and effective options. In general, telerehabilitation interventions were shown to improve functional level and quality of life, as no significant differences with control groups were observed. This review provides information on patients’ high levels of satisfaction and adherence, with values equivalent to traditional rehabilitation in all cases.
The Green Heart App (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Mobile Application (Iranian).
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for those with cardiovascular disease who wish to quit smoking.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides a self-monitoring application with interventions to help quit smoking, control dyslipidemia, and aid in the management of blood pressure.
The Impact of Different Mobile Health Technologies on Physical Activity of COPD Patients: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis (EN)
by An, W., Ning, S., et al.
October 29, 2025
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: This article examines how different mobile health technologies can support telerehabilitation for individuals with COPD by encouraging physical activity and exercise endurance when in-person pulmonary rehabilitation is difficult to access.
The Tele-Berg Balance Scale (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Assessment Tool
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for clinicians and researchers working with stroke survivors
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The Tele-Berg Balance Scale is a videoconference-based adaptation of the Berg Balance Scale for remote assessment. It enables clinicians to evaluate balance in stroke survivors through virtual sessions, offering a reliable and valid alternative to in-person testing for telerehabilitation.
The Telehealth Ten: A Guide for a Patient-Assisted Virtual Physical Examination (EN)
by Benziger, C.P., Huffman, M.D., et al.
July 18, 2020
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The authors propose the “Telehealth Ten,” which is a patient-assisted clinical examination to help guide clinicians.
T-Rehab System (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Software
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for individuals undergoing upper limb rehabilitation
BASIC DESCRIPTION: TRehab is a telerehabilitation system that delivers upper limb therapy through interactive exercises supported by motion tracking and real-time feedback. The platform enables remote monitoring and guidance of rehabilitation sessions to support motor recovery in a home-based setting.
