TY - JOUR
T1 - E-Health & Innovation to Overcome Barriers in Neuromuscular Diseases. Report from the 1st eNMD Congress
T2 - Nice, France, March 22-23, 2019
AU - Pini, Jonathan
AU - Siciliano, Gabriele
AU - Lahaut, Pauline
AU - Braun, Serge
AU - Segovia-Kueny, Sandrine
AU - Kole, Anna
AU - Hérnando, Ines
AU - Selb, Julij
AU - Schirinzi, Erika
AU - Duong, Tina
AU - Hogrel, Jean-Yves
AU - Olmedo, José Javier Serrano
AU - Vissing, John
AU - Servais, Laurent
AU - Vincent-Genod, Dominique
AU - Vuillerot, Carole
AU - Bannwarth, Sylvie
AU - Eggenspieler, Damien
AU - Vicart, Savine
AU - Diaz-Manera, Jordi
AU - Lochmüller, Hanns
AU - Sacconi, Sabrina
AU - eNMD group
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - By definition, neuromuscular diseases are rare and fluctuating in terms of symptoms; patients are often lately diagnosed, do not have enough information to understand their condition and be proactive in their management. Usually, insufficient resources or services are available, leading to patients' social burden. From a medical perspective, the rarity of such diseases leads to the unfamiliarity of the medical staff and caregiver and an absence of consensus in disease assessment, treatment, and management. Innovations have to be developed in response to patients' and physicians' unmet needs.It is vital to improve several aspects of patients' quality of life with a better comprehension of their disease, simplify their management and follow-up, help their caregiver, and reduce the social and economic burden for living with a rare debilitating disease. Database construction regrouping patients' data and symptoms according to specific country registration on data privacy will be critical in establishing a clear consensus on neuromuscular disease treatment.Clinicians also need technological innovations to help them recognize neuromuscular diseases, find the best therapeutic approach based on medical consensus, and tools to follow patients' states regularly. Diagnosis also has to be improved by implementing automated systems to analyze a considerable amount of data, representing a significant step forward to accelerate the diagnosis and the patients' follow up. Further, the development of new tools able to precisely measure specific outcomes reliably is of the matter of importance in clinical trials to assess the efficacy of a newly developed compound.In this context, creation of an expert community is essential to communicate and share ideas. To this end, 97 clinicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, and representatives of private companies from 9 different countries met to discuss the new perspective and challenges to develop and implement innovative tools in the field of neuromuscular diseases.
AB - By definition, neuromuscular diseases are rare and fluctuating in terms of symptoms; patients are often lately diagnosed, do not have enough information to understand their condition and be proactive in their management. Usually, insufficient resources or services are available, leading to patients' social burden. From a medical perspective, the rarity of such diseases leads to the unfamiliarity of the medical staff and caregiver and an absence of consensus in disease assessment, treatment, and management. Innovations have to be developed in response to patients' and physicians' unmet needs.It is vital to improve several aspects of patients' quality of life with a better comprehension of their disease, simplify their management and follow-up, help their caregiver, and reduce the social and economic burden for living with a rare debilitating disease. Database construction regrouping patients' data and symptoms according to specific country registration on data privacy will be critical in establishing a clear consensus on neuromuscular disease treatment.Clinicians also need technological innovations to help them recognize neuromuscular diseases, find the best therapeutic approach based on medical consensus, and tools to follow patients' states regularly. Diagnosis also has to be improved by implementing automated systems to analyze a considerable amount of data, representing a significant step forward to accelerate the diagnosis and the patients' follow up. Further, the development of new tools able to precisely measure specific outcomes reliably is of the matter of importance in clinical trials to assess the efficacy of a newly developed compound.In this context, creation of an expert community is essential to communicate and share ideas. To this end, 97 clinicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, and representatives of private companies from 9 different countries met to discuss the new perspective and challenges to develop and implement innovative tools in the field of neuromuscular diseases.
KW - Consensus
KW - France
KW - Health Personnel
KW - Humans
KW - Neuromuscular Diseases/urine
KW - Quality of Life
KW - Telemedicine
KW - innovation
KW - eNMD congress
KW - neuromuscular disease
KW - unmet needs
KW - e-Health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112046248&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/JND-210655
DO - 10.3233/JND-210655
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33843694
SN - 2214-3602
VL - 8
SP - 743
EP - 754
JO - Journal of neuromuscular diseases
JF - Journal of neuromuscular diseases
IS - 4
ER -