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Design thinking for mHealth application co-design to support heart failure self-management
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Woods, L and Cummings, E and Duff, J and Walker, K, Design thinking for mHealth application co-design to support heart failure self-management, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 241 pp. 97-102. ISSN 0926-9630 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-794-8-97
Abstract
Heart failure is a prevalent, progressive chronic disease costing in excess of $1billion per year in Australia alone. Disease self-management has positive implications for the patient and decreases healthcare usage. However, adherence to recommended guidelines is challenging and existing literature reports sub-optimal adherence. mHealth applications in chronic disease education have the potential to facilitate patient enablement for disease self-management. To the best of our knowledge no heart failure self-management application is available for safe use by our patients. In this paper, we present the process established to co-design a mHealth application in support of heart-failure self-management. For this development, an interdisciplinary team systematically proceeds through the phases of Stanford University's Design Thinking process; empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test with a user-centred philosophy. Using this clinician-led heart failure app research as a case study, we describe a sequence of procedures to engage with local patients, carers, software developers, eHealth experts and clinical colleagues to foster rigorously developed and locally relevant patient-facing mHealth solutions. Importantly, patients are engaged in each stage with ethnographic interviews, a series of workshops and multiple re-design iterations.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Co-design, Design Thinking, mHealth, application, heart failure, self- management |
| Research Division: | Health Sciences |
| Research Group: | Health services and systems |
| Research Field: | Health informatics and information systems |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Clinical health |
| Objective Field: | Clinical health not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Woods, L (Mrs Leanna Woods) |
| UTAS Author: | Cummings, E (Associate Professor Liz Cummings) |
| UTAS Author: | Duff, J (Dr Jed Duff) |
| UTAS Author: | Walker, K (Professor Kim Walker) |
| ID Code: | 120313 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 15 |
| Deposited By: | Health Sciences |
| Deposited On: | 2017-08-21 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-06-05 |
| Downloads: | 50 View Download Statistics |
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