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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.
Acceptability of a Text Message?Based Mobile Health Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in Cardiac Rehabilitation Enrollees: A Qualitative Substudy of Participant Perspectives (EN)
by Atluri, N., Mishra, S.R., Anderson, T. et al.
January 16, 2024
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Paper.
TARGET POPULATION: Activity tracker users in rehabilitation.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides evidence in support of the acceptability of users to the use of a text-messaged base mHealth system using activity trackers. Qualitative components.
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.
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 and Pulmonary Telerehabilitation Guideline (EN)
by Queensland Government (AUS)
January 03, 2022
TYPE OF TOOL: Practice Guidelines.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for clinicians.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides recommendations on ways to adapt and expand ways of offering cardiac, heart failure and pulmonary rehabilitation with a focus on a virtual model of care.
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).
Cardio4Health Study, a Cardiac Telerehabilitation Pilot Program Aimed at Patients After an Ischemic Event: Cross-sectional Study (EN)
by Calvo-Lopez, M., Tolos, R.A., et al.
April 24, 2023
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Reports on a pilot home-based cardiac telerehabilitation program for patients following an ischemic cardiac event, evaluating its safety and effects on functional capacity, muscle strength, and quality of life.
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.
Clinician perspectives on providing telepsychiatry services to young adults with first-episode psychosis during COVID-19 (EN)
by Lai, S., Abdel-Baki, A., & Peredo, R.
April 14, 2023
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Paper.
TARGET POPULATION: Telepsychiatry with first-episode psychosis.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides service providers’ perceptions on the use of telepsychiatry and changes over time.
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.
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.
Home Kit by Khymeia (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Home Rehabilitation Kit.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for clinicians and researchers.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides a complete kit for clients to take home, allowing therapists or researchers to connect remotely to provide therapy. Has ability to record offline activities and provide records to therapist.
Home-Based Telerehabilitation in Older Patients with COPD and Heart Failure (EN)
by Bernocchi, P., Vitacca, M., et al.
August 30, 2017
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The aim of this study was to investigate, after in-hospital rehabilitation, the feasibility and efficacy of a telerehabilitation home-based programme (Telereab-HBP) integrated with medical/nursing telesurveillance, compared to conventional care, in terms of: (i) exercise tolerance as the primary outcome, and (ii) time-to-event (hospitalisation for any reason, or death), dyspnoea, physical activity profile, disability and QoL, as the secondary outcomes.
iMHere 2.0 System (EN)
by University of Pittsburgh
TYPE OF TOOL: Platform.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for clients, caregivers, and health care professionals.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides platform for clinician guided self-care to patients with chronic diseases or for real-time assessment/intervention to individuals as they go about their daily lives.
Implementation and Evaluation of a Wraparound Virtual Care Program for Children with Medical Complexity (EN)
by Curfman, A.L., Haycraft, M., et al.
June 01, 2023
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The researchers implemented a virtual care model to provide in-home support and care coordination for medically complex children and adolescents and used an economic framework to assess changes in utilization and cost.
Korro (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Smartphone App
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for individuals seeking support for speech and language communication
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Korro is a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence–supported speech exercises and real-time feedback to support speech practice and communication skill development. The app provides guided speaking activities designed to facilitate independent practice and monitoring.
Living with Covid Recovery (EN)
by University College London Engineering
TYPE OF TOOL: Online Treatment Program.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for patients, clinicians and researchers.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The tool targets patients who have been discharged but are continuing to recover and rehabilitate at home.
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.
MindMotion™ GO Telerehabilitation Program (EN)
by MindMaze
TYPE OF TOOL: Treatment tool.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for patients, clinicians and researchers.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: MindMotion™ GO is an FDA-cleared medical device and software used in rehabilitation centers and at home to support the physical rehabilitation of adults with neurological conditions, such as stroke.
Moving together - benefits of an online dance program on physical and mental health for older women: an exploratory mixed-method study (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Research article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for researchers and clinicians.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Provides support for the implementation of an online dance program on the self-reported wellbeing on older women.
MUVITY (Virtual Reality Training for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation) (EN)
by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
March 01, 2023
TYPE OF TOOL: Treatment tool.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for patients, clinicians and researchers.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: A gamified physical telerehabilitation system that is focused on developing non-immersive virtual reality and telerehabilitation technology to help stroke patients regain their motor skills through avatar-guided exercises and interactive games.
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.
Recovery Plus (EN)
TYPE OF TOOL: Telehealth platform.
TARGET POPULATION: The platform was developed for cardiac patients either pre or post treatment. Was developed in the United States.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: This platform provides an interface for the remote administration of rehabilitation programs including exercise plans. The interface has an App for the client to use on a smart device.
RoboTeleRehab (EN)
by Mocan, B., Mocan, M., et. al.
September 15, 2022
TYPE OF TOOL: Online Treatment Program.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for patients, clinicians and researchers.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: The RoboTeleRehab system include (A) a home-based telerehabilitation system for the patient and (B) a telemonitoring system for the clinician. The designed home-based cardiac telemonitoring and telerehabilitation system (RoboTeleRehab) aims to aid patients in restoring motor function after a serious cardiac event.
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 COPD Pocket Consultant Guide Mobile App (EN)
by COPD Foundation (USA)
TYPE OF TOOL: Smartphone App.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed for clinicians.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: Designed to support the treatment and management of COPD, is available for both iOS and Android. The latest version contains an updated therapy chart, including the latest medications, inhaler and nebulizer instruction videos, depression and anxiety screeners, a pulmonary referral checklist, the CAPTURE tool, etc.
The Future of Wearables in Heart Failure Patients (EN)
by DeVore, A.D., Wosik, J. et. al.
November 14, 2019
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: This review assessed potential applications of wearable devices in Heart Failure (HF), summarizes available data, and discusses the future of wearables for improving HF care and health.
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 Telerehabilitation in Heart Failure Patients (TELEREH-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial (EN)
by Piotrowicz, E., Pencina, M.J., et al.
November 17, 2019
TYPE OF TOOL: Research Article.
TARGET POPULATION: Developed to inform clinicians, researchers, and educators.
BASIC DESCRIPTION: This study aimed to assess whether potential improvements in quality-of-life outcomes after a 9-week HCTR intervention in patients with heart failure translate into improvement in clinical outcomes during extended 12 to 24 months of follow-up, compared with usual care.
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.
