mHealth App to Facilitate Remote Care for Patients With COVID-19: Rapid Development of the DrCovid+ App.

Autor:	Tan JPY; Population Health and Integrated Care Office, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore., Tan MWJ; Population Health and Integrated Care Office, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.; Family Medicine and Continuing Care, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore., Towle RM; Population Health and Integrated Care Office, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.; Nursing, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore., Lee JSW; Population Health and Integrated Care Office, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore., Lei X; Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore., Liu Y; Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore., Goh RSM; Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore., Chee Ping FT; Office for Service Transformation, Singapore Health Services, Singapore, Singapore., Tan TC; Office for Service Transformation, Singapore Health Services, Singapore, Singapore., Ting DSW; Department of Ophthalmology, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore.; Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore., Lee CE; Innovation and Transformation, Singapore Health Services, Singapore, Singapore., Low LL; Population Health and Integrated Care Office, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.; Family Medicine and Continuing Care, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.; Outram Community Hospital, SingHealth Community Hospitals, Singapore, Singapore.; Centre for Population Health Research and Implementation, SingHealth Regional Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	JMIR formative research [JMIR Form Res] 2023 Feb 07; Vol. 7, pp. e38555. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 07.
DOI:	10.2196/38555
Abstrakt:	Background: The 2019 novel COVID-19 has severely burdened the health care system through its rapid transmission. Mobile health (mHealth) is a viable solution to facilitate remote monitoring and continuity of care for patients with COVID-19 in a home environment. However, the conceptualization and development of mHealth apps are often time and labor-intensive and are laden with concerns relating to data security and privacy. Implementing mHealth apps is also a challenging feat as language-related barriers limit adoption, whereas its perceived lack of benefits affects sustained use. The rapid development of an mHealth app that is cost-effective, secure, and user-friendly will be a timely enabler. Objective: This project aimed to develop an mHealth app, DrCovid+, to facilitate remote monitoring and continuity of care for patients with COVID-19 by using the rapid development approach. It also aimed to address the challenges of mHealth app adoption and sustained use. Methods: The Rapid Application Development approach was adopted. Stakeholders including decision makers, physicians, nurses, health care administrators, and research engineers were engaged. The process began with requirements gathering to define and finalize the project scope, followed by an iterative process of developing a working prototype, conducting User Acceptance Tests, and improving the prototype before implementation. Co-designing principles were applied to ensure equal collaborative efforts and collective agreement among stakeholders. Results: DrCovid+ was developed on Telegram Messenger and hosted on a cloud server. It features a secure patient enrollment and data interface, a multilingual communication channel, and both automatic and personalized push messaging. A back-end dashboard was also developed to collect patients' vital signs for remote monitoring and continuity of care. To date, 400 patients have been enrolled into the system, amounting to 2822 hospital bed-days saved. Conclusions: The rapid development and implementation of DrCovid+ allowed for timely clinical care management for patients with COVID-19. It facilitated early patient hospital discharge and continuity of care while addressing issues relating to data security and labor-, time-, and cost-effectiveness. The use case for DrCovid+ may be extended to other medical conditions to advance patient care and empowerment within the community, thereby meeting existing and rising population health challenges. (©Jamaica Pei Ying Tan, Michelle W J Tan, Rachel Marie Towle, Joanne Sze Win Lee, Xiaofeng Lei, Yong Liu, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Franklin Tan Chee Ping, Teck Choon Tan, Daniel Shu Wei Ting, Chen Ee Lee, Lian Leng Low. Originally published in JMIR Formative Research (https://formative.jmir.org), 07.02.2023.)
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