Table 2.
Ideal health app features.
| How important is it for a health app to have the following features? | Participant, n (%) | Importancea, mean (SD) |
| Tracking medications | 80 (93) | 4.49 (0.994) |
| Tracking appointments | 81 (94) | 4.74 (0.787) |
| Hands-free and voice interactive engagement with the app | 83 (97) | 3.28 (1.355) |
| Keeping medical diary | 83 (97) | 4.25 (1.124) |
| Recording of audio or video to be shared with provider | 83 (97) | 3.96 (1.273) |
| Relevant health education or coaching contents for at-home care | 83 (97) | 3.72 (1.262) |
| Guidelines for coordinating care activities with other caregivers | 82 (95) | 4 (1.227) |
| Visualizing and summarizing the history of symptoms with statistics | 81 (94) | 4.22 (0.949) |
| Summary of home events between clinical visits to share with the provider | 83 (97) | 4.47 (0.738) |
| Interacting with personal health records at your provider (for instance, using the MyChart app) | 82 (95) | 4.57 (0.754) |
| Providing a communication channel to connect to the providers | 82 (95) | 4.43 (0.903) |
| Regarding your current lifestyle, habits and routines, what would be the impact of such a tool or technology if it had the features you ranked as important or above | 82 (95) | 4.6 (0.626) |
a1: not at all important; 2: slightly important; 3: important; 4: fairly important; and 5: very important.