Use of user-centered design to create a smartphone application for patient-reported outcomes in atopic dermatitis

The ubiquity and convenience of smartphones carries great potential for collecting patient-reported data to address many gaps in research, especially those that rely on ongoing, real-time data collection. Health care apps have often suffered from low utility due to lack of consideration of the needs...

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Published in:NPJ digital medicine 2018-08, Vol.1 (1), p.33-33, Article 33
Main Authors: Gracey, Lia E., Zan, Shiyi, Gracz, Joseph, Miner, John J., Moreau, Jacqueline F., Sperber, Jodi, Jethwani, Kamal, Hale, Timothy M., Kvedar, Joseph C.
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Language:English
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Biomedicine
Biotechnology
Dermatitis
Digital technology
Eczema
Health informatics
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Smartphones
User-centered design
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Summary:The ubiquity and convenience of smartphones carries great potential for collecting patient-reported data to address many gaps in research, especially those that rely on ongoing, real-time data collection. Health care apps have often suffered from low utility due to lack of consideration of the needs of multiple stakeholders. We employed an iterative user-centered design approach to create the myEczema smartphone application (app) to study the burden of disease of atopic dermatitis. We outline below the steps we took for developing myEczema for multiple stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, and researchers.
ISSN:2398-6352
2398-6352
DOI:10.1038/s41746-018-0042-4