Table 1.
Objectives of using mHealth applications.
| Theme | Subtheme |
|---|---|
| 1. Learning and knowledge enhancement | • Anticoagulation knowledge |
| • Ensuring current evidence-based findings are disseminated to targeted end-users in a timely manner | |
| • Equipped with features based on the educational goals and practicum course | |
| • Evidence-based clinical decision support (CDS) | |
| • Improve nurses’ atrial fibrillation | |
| • Support nursing students | |
| • Support tool for inexperienced case managers/district nurses | |
| • Supporting an in-depth problem assessment | |
| 2. Treatment and improvement of the patient care process | • Assess the personal health status of patients |
| • Automated short-messaging service to reinforce compliance to drug intake | |
| • Avoid medical errors | |
| • Increase medication safety | |
| • Decrease medication errors | |
| • Reduce medication errors and time to drug delivery | |
| • Search for chemotherapy drugs | |
| • Developed to facilitate brief conversations between patients and clinicians as part of clinical care | |
| • Follow-up visit | |
| • Grounded in Krishnamacharya–Desikachar yoga therapy | |
| • Helps users to assess pain intensity | |
| • Improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) detection | |
| • Improve the quality of care | |
| • Medical order check | |
| • Monitor patients bio-features | |
| • Nursing care plan | |
| • Self-monitoring of the disease progression | |
| 3. Improve the diagnostic process | • Assist the early diagnosis |
| • Provide a broader/better overview of possible solutions | |
| • Provide a guideline/checklist for problem assessment and advice on solutions | |
| • Provide up-to-date information | |
| 4. Data and patient management | • Support nurses in their daily workflow |
| • Birth data tracking and analysis | |
| • Data entry | |
| • Data recording is made at the bedside | |
| • Documentation practices | |
| • Effective manner | |
| • Hospital electronic health record (EHR) | |
| • Facilitate documentation at the bedside | |
| • Frequency in communicating the need to use the bathroom and the need to get something | |
| • Integrate management of chronic conditions | |
| • Longitudinal health data | |
| • Manage data for the care of mothers, infants and children | |
| • Mobile electronic medical record | |
| • Modified to solve problems in the PC based EMR application | |
| • Nursing recording | |
| • Patient information management | |
| • Personalisation | |
| • Provide easy input interface and various outputs for nursing records | |
| • Support documentation of nurses at bedside using a user-centred approach | |
| 5. Health promotion | • Guided approach for promoting health and healing |
| • Health indicators for patients to track physical activity, diet, and sleep | |
| • Primary health care settings |