From a traditional behavioral management program to an m-health app: Lessons learned in developing m-health apps for existing health care programs

Author

Zhu, Qing ; Liu, Chang ; Holroyd, Kenneth A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of EECS, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

4-5 June 2012

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

72

Abstract

M-health applications provide a unique new way to deliver healthcare. Developing m-health applications involves new challenges different from those encountered when developing traditional healthcare programs and e-health applications. This paper describes the development of an m-health application for behavioral migraine management, and presents lessons learned during the development process from software engineers´ perspective.

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; diseases; health care; medical information systems; mobile communication; mobile computing; behavioral management program; behavioral migraine management; e-health application; health care program; m-health application; mobile communication; mobile computing; mobile health; software engineering; Educational institutions; Medical services; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Software; User interfaces; migraine; mobile health app; self-management; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering in Health Care (SEHC), 2012 4th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1844-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEHC.2012.6227006

Filename

6227006