- Title
- Design thinking for mHealth application co-design to support heart failure self-management
- Creator
- Woods, Leanna; Cummings, Elizabeth; Duff, Jed; Walker, Kim
- Relation
- International Conference on “Context Sensitive Health Informatics, Human and Socio-Technical approaches” (CSHI2017). Context Sensitive Health Informatics: Redesigning Healthcare Work [presented in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 241] (Hong Kong 1-5 August, 2017) p. 97-102
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-794-8-97
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- 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 patientfacing mHealth solutions. Importantly, patients are engaged in each stage with ethnographic interviews, a series of workshops and multiple re-design iterations.
- Subject
- co-design; design thinking; mHealth; application; heart failure; self-management
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1396702
- Identifier
- uon:34097
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781614997931
- Rights
- © 2017 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
- Language
- eng
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