Medical professional involvement in smartphone ‘apps’ in dermatology

Hamilton, A.; Brady, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.2012.10844.x

Cited by 115 publications

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“…Granting that the Merck Manual and a number of medical apps have been a benefit to the medical community, this inconsistency in attention paid to them is still troubling. In an age when apps are made and put online quickly and with little oversight, it can be difficult to verify the role of industry or other sources of content in the creation of medical apps, as was shown from the perspective of dermatology by Hamilton and Brady (2012). Further, it is entirely plausible to imagine that a particular medical app, owned by a pharmaceutical company, might suggest its own medicine for a particular disease.…”

Section: Medical Appsmentioning

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Medical Apps: Public and Academic Perspectives

Krieger

2013

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Medical apps have featured in popular websites and mainstream news media in recent months. However, there has been almost no mention of these tools in journals focusing on relevant ethical or social issues, including conflict of interest, the role of politics in science, and technological oversight. This essay examines the role that these philosophical issues might play in answering both public and academic questions about these pieces of emergent technology.

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Medical Apps: Public and Academic Perspectives

Krieger

2013

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“…Wide availability of mobile computing and smart phone devices have spurt extensive activities to exploit these technological advancements for dermatology applications. Carefully studying 79 dermatology-themed smart phone apps surveyed in [7] has come to two conclusions: ubiquitous mobile computing technologies offer new opportunities and possibilities for developing new applications in dermatology to help improve patient care; however, all existing systems followed traditional TD paradigm and none have intelligent CAD capabilities.…”

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Interactive skin condition recognition

Razeghi

Zhang

Qiu

2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

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It is believed that there are between 1000 to 2000 skin conditions, and about 20% are difficult to diagnose. An intelligent system capable of making accurate diagnosis not only helps patients in places where access to health services are scarce, but also benefits typical general practitioners who have received minimal dermatology training. In this paper, we introduce a challenging dataset developed by gathering 2309 images from 44 different skin conditions, and collecting answers to simple perceptual questions from 361 "Amazon Mechanical Turk" workers. We also propose a method based on random forest technology that combines visual features of the skin lesion images with user provided answers to achieve promising recognition rates. We believe that our solution can be potentially improved and installed on smart phones and tablets to enhance quality of life in patients across the world.Index Terms-visual recognition, human in the loop, skin conditions, dermatology

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“…Finally, the absence of healthcare provider involvement in the design of health IT has been raised in many occasions [138][139][140][141][142] is addressed within this model. Active involvement and participation from all relevant stakeholders is contemplated in the design process through the use of 3MD for Chronic conditions model.…”

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3MD for Chronic Conditions, a Model for Motivational mHealth Design: Embedded Case Study (Preprint)

Giunti¹

2018

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Chronic conditions are the leading cause of death in the world. Major improvements in acute care and diagnostics have created a tendency towards the chronification of formerly terminal conditions, requiring people with these conditions to learn how to self-manage. Mobile technologies hold promise as self-management tools due to their ubiquity and costeffectiveness.The delivery of health-related services through the use of mobile technologies (mHealth) has grown exponentially in recent years. However, only a fraction of these solutions takes into consideration the views of relevant stakeholders like healthcare professionals or even patients. The use of behavioral change models (BCM) has proven important in developing successful health solutions, yet engaging patients remains a challenge. There is a trend in mHealth solutions called gamification that attempts to use game elements to drive user behavior and increase engagement. As it stands, designers of mHealth solutions for behavioral change in chronic conditions have no clear way of deciding what factors are relevant to consider.The focus of this work is to discover factors for the design of mHealth solutions for chronic patients; to do so, negotiations between medical knowledge, BCM, and gamification were explored through an embedded case study research methodology. The data obtained was thematically analyzed to create the Model for Motivational Mobile-health Design for chronic conditions (3MD).The 3MD model guides the design of condition-oriented gamified behavioral change mHealth solutions. The main components are: 1) Condition-specific, which describe factors that need to be adjusted and adapted for each particular chronic condition; 2) Motivation-related; which are factors that address how to influence behaviors in an engaging manner; and 3) Technologybased, which are factors that are directly connected to the technical capabilities of mobile technologies. 3MD also provides a series of high level illustrative design questions for designers to use and consider during the design process.The present work addresses a recognized gap in research and practice, and proposes a unique model that could be of use in the generation of new solutions to help chronic patients.

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Medical professional involvement in smartphone ‘apps’ in dermatology

Cited by 115 publications

References 5 publications

Medical Apps: Public and Academic Perspectives

Medical Apps: Public and Academic Perspectives

Interactive skin condition recognition

3MD for Chronic Conditions, a Model for Motivational mHealth Design: Embedded Case Study (Preprint)

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