Steps to Develop a Mobile App for Pain Assessment of Cancer Patients: A Usability Study.

Health-related mobile apps have the potential to allow patients and providers to proactively and responsibly manage pain together. However, there is a gap between the science of pain and current mobile apps. To develop a prototype science-based pain assessment mobile app (PainSmart) for Android smartphones, pain assessment tasks were extracted from a clinical guideline.

A Framework Facilitates Development of a Mobile App.

Due to the advance of mobile technology, use of mobile devices such as smartphones has been growing rapidly in the U.S. and worldwide.