Table 1 Description of DCP CMyLife

The development and features of the CMyLife platform were described in detail elsewhere [24]. CMyLife facilitates CML patients with a website (www.cmylife.nl), a medication app, a guideline app, and a personal health environment (PHE). The CMyLife platform and its components are depicted below (Fig. 1).

The website provides accurate and easy to understand information about CML, medication, guidelines, side effects, and the effect on daily life (work, sports, mortgage etc.). Through the website patients are enabled to communicate with specialists and other patients.

The medication app [35] is used to set medication alarms, register their medication intake, request for repeat medication prescriptions and read the information leaflet of medication. In addition, patients can log the side effects they experience, which can be shared with their HCPs through their PHE.

The guideline app [33] enables self-monitoring of the biomarker BCR-ABL1, by sending monitoring reminders according to the Dutch CML guideline, and shows an understandable explanation of patients’ BCR-ABL1 values in relation to the Dutch guideline.

Patients can save their own medical records from their electronic medical record in their personal health environment, consisting of a Patient Knows Best portal [36]. For example, they can share their side effects with their HCP in order to discuss them.