Objective To conduct systematic review to better define how medical mobile applications
(apps) have been used in environments relevant to physical medicine and rehabilitation …

Background: The emergence of smartphones and tablets featuring vastly advancing
functionalities (eg, sensors, computing power, interactivity) has transformed the way …

Background: Although the increasing availability of mobile health (mHealth) apps may
enable people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) to better self-manage …

Background: Chronic arthritis (CA), an umbrella term for inflammatory rheumatic and other
musculoskeletal diseases, is highly prevalent. Effective disease-modifying antirheumatic …

Objective The number of mobile applications addressing health topics is increasing.
Whether these apps underwent scientific evaluation is unclear. We comprehensively …

Rheumatic diseases (RD) self-management interventions are designed to improve health-
related quality of life, health care utilization, and perceived self-efficacy. Despite these …

Patient-centered smartphone applications have potential to support rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
self-management but remain almost unexplored in literature. Therefore, this study evaluated …

Objective To explore the effect of apps measuring patient-reported outcomes (PROs) on
patient–provider interaction in the rheumatic diseases in an observational setting. Methods …

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that develops in up to 30% of
patients with psoriasis. In the vast majority of cases, cutaneous symptoms precede …

Introduction: This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on
“Methodologies, Models and Algorithms for Patients Rehabilitation”. Background …