The landscape of research on smartphone medical apps: Coherent taxonomy, motivations, open challenges and recommendations

Hussain, Muzammil; Al-Haiqi, Ahmed; Zaidan, A. A.; Zaidan, B. B.; Kiah, Miss Laiha Mat; Anuar, Nor Badrul; Abdulnabi, Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.08.015

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“…5 Medical apps thus are designed to facilitate point-of-care decisions such as drug dosing by presenting relevant information in an aggregated and easily graspable format. 6,7 These apps assist in providing evidence-based, patient-centered care while decreasing error rates and face increasing popularity among healthcare professionals worldwide. [8][9][10][11][12] Given the significant current and future investment into technology adoption and implementation in the healthcare sector, the extent to which medical apps support care and doctor-patient communication should be examined.…”

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Exploring perceptions on medical app use in clinical communication among Austrian physicians: Results of a validation study

Haluza

Hofer

2019

Health Informatics J

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Physicians increasingly use medical applications to facilitate clinical information management. The respective effect on clinical communication and quality of healthcare provision has not been studied in the Austrian context so far. Thus, the current cross-sectional online study analyzed prevalent medical applications use and views on clinical communication competence in everyday medical practice among Austrian physicians (n = 151) and validated the survey tool. More than half of the participants used medical applications in daily clinical practice. The top three benefits of medical applications use were higher quality of healthcare, locationindependent health service access, and higher efficiency in healthcare resource allocation. Moreover, study participants felt that communication competence acquired during medical studies inadequately prepared them for daily clinical practices. Medical applications use certainly affects the therapeutic alliance between patients and physician. This study supports the importance of initiating an open, constructive discussion among healthcare stakeholders and developing according to evidence-based guidelines.

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Exploring perceptions on medical app use in clinical communication among Austrian physicians: Results of a validation study

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Hofer

2019

Health Informatics J

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“…Following the advent and proliferation of smartphones, app-based research has spread across the scientific landscape, ranging from fields as diverse as physics [1], tourism [2,3] and geology [4,5] to medicine [6,7]. Of note, it falls on especially fertile grounds in psychology, booming throughout the discipline, from biopsychology [8] to neuroscience [9,10] and personality research [11, 12, 13].…”

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Users of the main smartphone operating systems (iOS, Android) differ only little in personality

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The increasingly widespread use of mobile phone applications (apps) as research tools and cost-effective means of vast data collection raises new methodological challenges. In recent years, it has become a common practice for scientists to design apps that run only on a single operating system, thereby excluding large numbers of users who use a different operating system. However, empirical evidence investigating any selection biases that might result thereof is scarce. Henceforth, we conducted two studies drawing from a large multi-national (Study 1; N = 1,081) and a German-speaking sample (Study 2; N = 2,438). As such Study 1 compared iOS and Android users across an array of key personality traits (i.e., well-being, self-esteem, willingness to take risks, optimism, pessimism, Dark Triad, and the Big Five). Focusing on Big Five personality traits in a broader scope, in addition to smartphone users, Study 2 also examined users of the main computer operating systems (i.e., Mac OS, Windows). In both studies, very few significant differences were found, all of which were of small or even tiny effect size mostly disappearing after sociodemographics had been controlled for. Taken together, minor differences in personality seem to exist, but they are of small to negligible effect size (ranging from OR = 0.919 to 1.344 (Study 1), ηp2 = .005 to .036 (Study 2), respectively) and may reflect differences in sociodemographic composition, rather than operating system of smartphone users.

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“…Ein offensichtliches Schadenspotenzial ergibt sich daraus, dass die Qualität wie auch die Präzision der genutzten Apps für den Nutzer nicht beurteilbar ist [42,47] …”

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E-Health und Gesundheitsapps aus medizinethischer Sicht

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Schmidt

2018

Bundesgesundheitsbl

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The landscape of research on smartphone medical apps: Coherent taxonomy, motivations, open challenges and recommendations

Cited by 121 publications

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Exploring perceptions on medical app use in clinical communication among Austrian physicians: Results of a validation study

Exploring perceptions on medical app use in clinical communication among Austrian physicians: Results of a validation study

Users of the main smartphone operating systems (iOS, Android) differ only little in personality

E-Health und Gesundheitsapps aus medizinethischer Sicht

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