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A development framework for mobile healthcare monitoring apps

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Developing healthcare monitoring apps is non-trivial as it requires a balance between simple, easy-to-use interfaces, and powerful business intelligence reporting capabilities, both of which must be integrated into the day-to-day tasks and procedures of clinical practice. This paper presents a development framework for building and deploying mobile healthcare monitoring apps. The framework combines an application development methodology (that ensures adoption and effectiveness of apps when deployed) with an application architecture and component library (to simplify and reduce the development effort needed to implement, deploy and maintain such apps). The development framework is evaluated using a case study of a mobile healthcare monitoring app developed and deployed in collaboration with a team of healthcare researchers and doctors to support the training of residents in family medicine.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by an AIME grant from the School of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, the Mitacs Accelerate program, IBM and an NSERC Discovery Grant. We would like to thank the residents who participated in this case study, especially Alexandre Labelle. We would also like to thank Dr. Susan Humphrey-Murto and Dr. Eric Wooltorton for their participation and extremely useful feedback throughout this research.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada

    Pilar Mata, Austin Chamney & Liam Peyton

  2. Faculty of Medicine/Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, 43 Bruyère Street, Ottawa, K1N 5C8, Canada

    Gary Viner & Douglas Archibald

  3. Bruyère Research Institute, 85 Primrose Avenue, Ottawa, K1R 7G5, Canada

    Douglas Archibald

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Mata, P., Chamney, A., Viner, G. et al. A development framework for mobile healthcare monitoring apps. Pers Ubiquit Comput 19, 623–633 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0849-9

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