A Patient Centered Cloud Platform for Mobile-Health Enabled Clinical Research

Mobile collection and curation of health data is becoming increasingly common, offering great potential for health insights and digital interventions. There is increasing interest among clinical researchers to utilize these data streams for health science research, but the need for high levels of technical expertise and high costs of creating systems for aggregating and analyzing this data precludes such studies. Here we describe a patient-centered platform that enables rapid research-study design, real-time data collection and monitoring, and cloud storage of mobile data streams using simple user interfaces, built on an inexpensive and scalable cloud hosted system architecture.