BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
July 2024
Background: Experts are currently investigating the potential applications of the metaverse in healthcare. The metaverse, a groundbreaking concept that arose in the early 21st century through the fusion of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, holds promise for transforming healthcare delivery. Alongside its implementation, the issue of digital professionalism in healthcare must be addressed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany people in the advanced stages of dementia require full-time caregivers, most of whom are family members who provide informal (non-specialized) care. It is important to provide these caregivers with high-quality information to help them understand and manage the symptoms and behaviors of dementia patients. This study aims to evaluate ChatGPT, a chatbot built using the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) large language model, in responding to information needs and information seeking of such informal caregivers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mobile apps have been shown to play an important role in the management, care, and prevention of infectious diseases. Thus, skills for self-care-one of the most effective ways to prevent illness-can be improved through mobile health apps.
Objective: This study aimed to design, develop, and evaluate an educational mobile-based self-care app in order to help the self-prevention of COVID-19 in underdeveloped countries.
Introduction: Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) play an important role in summarizing the best clinical practices, thereby promoting high standards of care in specific medical fields. These systems can serve as tools for gaining knowledge and mediating between clinical guidelines and physicians thereby providing the right information to the right person at the right time.
Objective: This review aims to evaluate the effect of CDSSs on adherence to guidelines for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis and VTE events compared to routine care without CDSSs in non-surgical patients.
This paper shows that the MDA framework can be helpful for designing and implementing FAIR principles. We reached this conclusion based on a focus group interview with six experts, during which we focused on the three MDA components: mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStud Health Technol Inform
January 2022
Many national governments have attempted to prevent and combat COVID-19 using mobile health (mHealth) technologies during the epidemic. During this time, governments began developing smartphone-based apps for prevention, call tracking, and monitoring people with COVID-19. An important question is, does everyone benefit from these technologies equally and fairly? To answer this question, we evaluated the user interface of smartphone-based apps developed during the COVID-19 era by considering their design for older adults, in order to determine whether social justice has been considered in the development of these apps.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the COVID-19 era, technology-enhanced protection of this disease has saved lives in developed countries in which citizens have the privilege of accessing and using such technologies to fight Coronavirus. In the undeveloped countries, on the other hand, citizens have had no accession or ability to use digital technologies to prevent COVID-19. Having this in front, in the MyShield research project, we aim to address how to teach self-care skills in undeveloped countries in the era of COVID-19 using a mobile low-cost application effectively based on a standard educational model (ADDIE).
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May 2021
Our aim in the present study was to evaluate the HealthBuddy+ smartphone app, designed and implemented by the World Health Organization for the European region. For this purpose, we have used Heuristic evaluation method. The tools utilized in this study included 10 heuristics and measure System Usability Scale (SUS), as well as Nielsen's five-point Severity Ranking Scale.
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