A Post-development Perspective on mHealth -- An Implementation Initiative in Malawi

Purkayastha, Saptarshi; Manda, Tiwonge Davis; Sanner, Terje Aksel

doi:10.1109/hicss.2013.53

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“…The system's aim was to provide medical assistance to those with HIV/AIDS in the area. Similarly, Purkayastha et al discuss the deployment of a system in Malawi [28]. They provide insights on how to do mHealth deployments in the future.…”

Section: Mhealthmentioning

confidence: 97%

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What health topics older adults want to track

Davidson

Jensen

2013

Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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Older adults are increasingly savvy consumers of smartphonebased health solutions and information. These technologies may enable older adults to age-in-place more successfully. However, many app creators fail to do needs assessments of their end-users. To rectify this issue, we involved older adults (aged 65+) in the beginning stages of designing a mobile health and wellness application. We conducted a participatory design study, where 5 groups of older adults created 5 designs. Four groups identified at least 1 health metric not currently offered in either the iPhone app store or the Google Play store. At the end of the sessions we administered a questionnaire to determine what health topics participants would like to track via smartphone or tablet. The designs included 13 health topics that were not on the questionnaire. Seventeen of eighteen participants expressed interest in tracking health metrics using a smartphone/tablet despite having little experience with these devices. This shows that older adults have unique ideas that are not being considered by current technology designers. We conclude with recommendations for future development, and propose continuing to involve to older adults in participatory design.

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Section: Mhealthmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…They were free to choose which health topics. In this way, we were assessing the needs of our local community, as recommended by Purkayastha et al [28] prior to developing a system. Another difference between most of the cited systems and our work is that many of them do not focus on the needs of older adults.…”

Section: Mhealthmentioning

confidence: 99%

What health topics older adults want to track

Davidson

Jensen

2013

Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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“…This portal allows the users to use the High Performance Computing (HPC) resources for modelling tasks with convenient web based interface that hides the technical details, enabling the users to focus on their research [10]. In the Dynaswap project, we are able to provide a host of security tools to researchers, educators and clinical users of the OpenMRS medical records platform, such that those from low-and middle-income countries [11] are be able to access HPC resources through our gateway.…”

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Enabling Secure and Effective Biomedical Data Sharing through Cyberinfrastructure Gateways

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Purkayastha²,

Phillips³

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Scientific cyberinfrastructures promise solutions to computational challenges with rich resources; they embrace collaborative workflows in which users can access and share scientific data and computing resources to perform research and education tasks, which catalyze scientific discovery. The Dynaswap project reports on developing a coherently integrated and trustworthy holistic secure workflow protection architecture for cyberinfrastructures which can be used on virtual machines deployed through cyberinfrastructure (CI) services such as JetStream. This service creates a user-friendly cloud environment designed to give researchers access to interactive computing and data analysis resources on demand. The Dynaswap cybersecurity architecture supports roles, role hierarchies, and data hierarchies, as well as dynamic changes of roles and hierarchical relations within the scientific infrastructure. Dynaswap combines existing cutting-edge security frameworks (including an Authentication Authorization-Accounting framework, Multi-Factor Authentication, Secure Digital Provenance, and Blockchain) with advanced security tools (e.g., Biometric-Capsule, Cryptography-based Hierarchical Access Control, and Dual-level Key Management). The security technologies have been developed and integrated with the Open Medical Record System for enhanced security purposes and delivering a secure scientific infrastructure, which allows researchers, educators, practitioners, and students to remotely access and share sensitive data, computing resources, and workflows with flexibility and convenience while also having the highest security and privacy protection. The CI is being validated in life-science research environments and in the education settings of Health Informatics.

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“…This makes it easy to understand why the number of mHealth implementations around the world has been increasing dramatically (e.g. Purkayastha, Manda, and Sanner 2013, Cameron, Ramaprasad, and Syn 2017, White et al 2016, Sundin, Callan, and Mehta 2016. However, while mHealth has the potential to transform health services and to increase access to healthcare (e.g.…”

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Identifying Generative Mechanisms in a Mobile Health (mHealth) Project in Sierra Leone: A Critical Realist Framework for Retroduction

Wall

Lewis

Hederman

2019

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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This paper examines an ongoing mobile health (mHealth) initiative in Sierra Leone. The objective is to describe the ontological perspective and methodological approach used which relies on critical realism and Archer's morphogenetic approach. Such a critical realist-based approach addresses many of the concerns associated with the interpretivist and positivist philosophical duopoly that has dominated the ICT4D field for many years. The approach allows the mechanisms that determined what caused the events associated with the mHealth case to be hypothesized, thus making clear why this mHealth case has sustained through many challenges.

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A Post-development Perspective on mHealth -- An Implementation Initiative in Malawi

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What health topics older adults want to track

What health topics older adults want to track

Enabling Secure and Effective Biomedical Data Sharing through Cyberinfrastructure Gateways

Identifying Generative Mechanisms in a Mobile Health (mHealth) Project in Sierra Leone: A Critical Realist Framework for Retroduction

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