Concordance of data collected by an app for medical history taking and in-person interviews from patients in primary care.

Objective: This study investigates the concordance of patient information collected using a medical history app compared to in-person interviews.

Materials And Methods: In this cross-sectional study we used an app to collect medical data from patients in family practice in Germany. Collected information included age, height, weight, perceived severity of complaints, and 38 current complaints.

Usability of an App for Medical History Taking in General Practice From the Patients' Perspective: Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: A future shortage of physicians, especially in general practice, will result in an increasing workload for health care providers as a whole. Therefore, it is important to optimize patient-encounter processes to increase time efficiency related to visits. Utilizing digital tools to record patients' medical histories prior to a consultation offers great potential to achieve this goal.

Obtaining patients' medical history using a digital device prior to consultation in primary care: study protocol for a usability and validity study.

Background: With the help of digital tools patients' medical histories can be collected quickly and transferred into their electronic medical records. This information can facilitate treatment planning, reduce documentation work, and improve care. However, it is still unclear whether the information collected from patients in this way is reliable.