Digital Cognition Study During Long-COVID

The Digital Cognition study ("DigiCog") will be conducted within the framework of an already existing robust research project, Predi-COVID (NCT04380987), launched in May 2020 by the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH). This cohort study has originally enrolled -and is still ongoing- patients with COVID-19 disease and followed them for over a year in order to approach the potential long-term health effects of the pathology, the "chronic post-COVID syndrome", (https://www.lih.lu/blog/our-news-1/post/a-year-of-predi-covid-407#blog\_content) or more frequently referred to as "Long COVID" . If the Predi-COVID study has first been devoted to acute and early symptomatology, it now covers a wide range of medical conditions potentially linked to the persistence of COVID-19 disease, such as extreme fatigue, pain, allergy, renal and cardiovascular complications, stress and anxiety, emotions, memory impairment as well as neurological complications. In this context, the working collaboration between LIH and VIEWMIND Company is a major opportunity to incorporate VIEWMIND's technology in a spin-off project, to additionally screen neurocognitive conditions after COVID-19, improving Long COVID diagnosis. The state-of-the-art VIEWMIND's technology (herein referred to as "VMTech") is indeed a non-invasive and reliable digital tool, using artificial intelligence to deliver accurate results especially on cognitive performance, areas of the brain functioning and high-level motor skills, as well as identifying neurocognitive pathologies (see https://www.viewmind.ai/copy-of-terms-of-service; https://ww2.frost.com/news/press-releases/viewmind-applauded-by-frost-sullivan-for-its-one-of-a-kind-digital-biomarker-technology-for-neurocognitive-disorders). Moreover this cognitive screening will be analyzed according to persistent COVID-19 symptomatology, but also in relationship with the initial severity of SARS-COV-2 infection, and individual features and habits of participants. As a multifactorial approach, the project will test VMTech in a research framework on COVID-19, it will additionally use a complementary cognitive battery of tests as the gold standard. Hence, this collaborative project fits with the expectations and requirements of the funding joint call Healthtech, addressing the need of gathering evidence of effectiveness "in real-life" of the developed tool. The DigiCog project consortium is adequate to validate the digital biomarker technology, being a balanced public private partnership, based on an on-going powerful cohort study, a long lasting expertise in public and precision health, and an advanced and recognized technology. The project will help to bring VMTech to the market for accurately monitoring people with Long COVID.