Table 1 Digital and analogue tools used for managing digitally enabled health studies

Project team communication

E-mail

1,2,3,4,6,7

Google Meet

2

Google Translate

7

In-person team meetings

1,3,5,6,7,8

Microsoft Power point

7

Microsoft Teams

1,7

Microsoft Word

7

Phone calls

4

Skype

3

Slack

4,7

Voice messages

2

WhatsApp

1,2

Zoom

1,6,7

Project team information and document storage

Access database

5,6,7

Basecamp

4

Computer

2

Consumer project management system (unspecified)

8

Electronic tracking system (unspecified)

6

Freedcamp

4

Google Docs

1,2, 4, 7

Google Drive

6,7

Microsoft Excel

5,6,7

Microsoft Power point

7

Microsoft Word

7

Servers

4

SharePoint

1

Spreadsheet (not specified)

3

Teams

1

Recruitment, study enrolment & informed consent

[Electronic informed consent signature platform]

4,6

E-mail

6,7

Hospital electronic health record (EHR)

3,6

Letter (unspecified)

3,5

mailed paper form

6

Newspaper

5

Phone

5,6,7

Third-party's customer database

6

Website

6

Data-collection and storage

Computer

8

Database (unspecified)

4,6

Electronic questionnaires

3

In-person data collection by project team members

1,2,4,5,8

Manual copying from external digital database

5,7,8

Mobile phone

2

Paper questionnaires

3,5,8

Server

4,6

Third-party company or organization

6,8

Windows systems

8

Intervention

Computer

2,5,6

E-mail

3

iPad

2,3

Larger commercial equipment or technology

1,3

Mail

6

Mobile phone apps

1,2

Server

2

Smartphone

6

virtual reality system

1

Video conferencing

3

wearable device

6

Website

1

Participant and technology support

E-mail

3

Phone calls

3,6

Video conferencing

3