New app and MRI tool aim to improve MS care
NCT ID NCT05949580
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jul 21, 2026 · Updated 3 times
Summary
This study tests a digital platform that combines an app for patients and a brain-scan analysis tool for doctors. The goal is to see if it helps monitor multiple sclerosis (MS) more easily in everyday care. About 500 people with relapsing-remitting MS will use the app and have their MRI scans analyzed by the platform over two years. Researchers will ask doctors and patients how user-friendly and helpful the platform is.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- MS Care Platform (icobrain ms and icompanion ms)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this platform could give doctors better tools to track MS progression and adjust treatments more quickly.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-stage usability study, not a treatment trial. It measures how well doctors and patients like the platform, not whether it improves health outcomes.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 500 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2024
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Participants with MS are enrolled in this study. Participants with RRMS were chosen because most available disease modifying therapies (DMTs) are approved for this subgroup, and hence guiding care in this population is most relevant.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Able to comply with the study protocol, including having a smartphone and being able and willing to access the icompanion ms patient app on a regular basis. To use all functionalities of the icompanion ms patient app, the user's smartphone must comply with the minimum system requirements (Android version 5.0 or above, iOS version 11 or above) * Have a valid email address (for registration of icompanion ms) * Have a definite diagnosis of RRMS * Time since MS diagnosis ≥1 year * Medical history recorded for at least 1 year before enrollment * Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) \<5.5 Exclusion Criteria: * Any contra-indications to using icompanion ms patient app or website, as per the investigator's discretion * Inability to complete an MRI * Currently involved in an interventional trial * Diagnosis of progressive MS (primary progressive multiple sclerosis \[PPMS\] or secondary progressive multiple sclerosis \[SPMS\])
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
7 sites in 3 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
The full official record for this study. This one lists no contact details, but it is the first place any would appear.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, New Jersey, 07601, United States
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Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis
Alicante/alacant, Alicante, 03010, Spain
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Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas, 35010, Spain
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Jersey Shore University Medical Centre
Neptune City, New Jersey, 07753, United States
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Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology
Golden Valley, Minnesota, 55422, United States
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Praxis Dr. med. Max Deist und Michael Ernst ?Sinsheim
Sinsheim, 74889, Germany
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Universitaetsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus an der TU Dresden
Dresden, 01307, Germany
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