Table 2.
The health management section design and rationale.
Subsection | Item | Rationale |
Appointments | Add medical appointments including detail | Patients experienced challenges managing multiple appointments with family caregivers often assisting; clinicians believed follow-up and connected care is not done well in the health service; scheduling and reminders were a priority; reviewed current tools for documenting clinic and doctor visits [23,25]. |
My Docs | Store, review, and share test results, letters, and referrals | Some patients wanted test results but may misplace documentation; clinicians wanted to include or track data, facilitate team communication, and maximize and join care; reviewed tools to document health records [23,25]; hospital’s discharge checklist contains echocardiogram results [21]. |
My Team | Contact details of emergency contact person and health professionals | Patients frequently liaise with their health care team but experience poor information sharing between health care providers; a design priority was to manage all stakeholders in care well and facilitate team communication; referred to the recommendations [7] and standards [21] for multidisciplinary care in HFa; the literature highlights the importance of team communication [24] and provides tools to document their contact details [23-25]; the hospital’s HF discharge checklist contains postdischarge care and follow-up details [21] |
aHF: heart failure