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Increase the Quality of Treatment with Medical Apps Through Remote Compliance Testing

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Medical Apps are increasingly gaining in importance. But comprehensive testing of the app is difficult and there is no single method. For example, compliance has been ignored so far in most cases. A general remote method has been developed to test the compliance behavior when using medical apps, as well as to take them into account in later treatment. With the help of timestamps at appropriate locations, frequency, times and periods of use can be measured and (automatically) compared with predefined values. Furthermore, this method provides information about the efficiency and the learning phase of the users, as well as the usability, which is of great importance for the evaluation of compliance. With the help of different smartphone sensors, it is possible to evaluate the data quality. By taking other factors into consideration, such as the quality of experience and external circumstances, as well as the determination of data quality, the medical app can be evaluated comprehensively. This allows user profiles to be created . This resulting information can be entered into the treatment and the quality of the treatment can be increased .

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  1. Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Janina Sauer, Alexander Muenzberg & Andreas Hein

  2. University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Janina Sauer, Alexander Muenzberg, Franz Reisewitz & Norbert Roesch

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  1. Middlesex University, London, UK

    Xin-She Yang

  2. University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Simon Sherratt

  3. JIS University, Kolkata, India

    Nilanjan Dey

  4. Global Knowledge Research Foundation, Ahmedabad, India

    Amit Joshi

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Sauer, J., Muenzberg, A., Reisewitz, F., Hein, A., Roesch, N. (2022). Increase the Quality of Treatment with Medical Apps Through Remote Compliance Testing. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 235. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2377-6_87

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