A Mobile App (Concerto) to Empower Hospitalized Patients in a Swiss University Hospital: Development, Design, and Implementation Report.

Background: Patient empowerment can be associated with better health outcomes, especially in the management of chronic diseases. Digital health has the potential to promote patient empowerment.

Objective: Concerto is a mobile app designed to promote patient empowerment in an in-patient setting.

[Moving towards patient-centered care using a mobile application : the Concerto project].

The benefits of patient empowerment are more and more recognized, and digital technologies have an important potential to favor it. The mobile application Concerto, prototyped during a hackathon, was co-created by caregivers, developers and patients by using a user-centered design and an agile development methodology. It uses the information available in the hospital information system to provide patients with an up-to-date schedule of care, targeted medical and practical information, a presentation of the care team and a tool promoting interactions with caregivers.