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. 2023 Feb 16;11:e44468. doi: 10.2196/44468

Table 1.

Main features of JomPrEP.

Features Description
Customizable Home page
  • Visual presentation using avatars and pseudonyms

HIVSTa
  • Allows users to order an HIVST kit (Orasure)

  • Allows users to upload HIVST results for verification purposes to facilitate posttest linkage to HIV prevention or treatment services

  • Includes multimedia (ie, text-, picture-, and video-based) content on how to use the HIVST kit and interpret the result

PrEPb Express
  • Provides users with a fast and convenient way to start PrEP (and state on it)

  • Includes a sequential pathway for the users to get on PrEP: HIV risk assessment (provides tailored recommendations based on the user’s response); choose preferred clinic (allows users to choose between the participating clinics for PrEP); choose PrEP type (allows users to choose between different PrEP prescription modalities, ie, same dayc vs traditionald); schedule appointments (allows users to choose their preferred date and time for phlebotomy and e-consultatione); PrEP medication delivery (allows users to choose their preferred method of getting PrEP: pickup at the pharmacy vs discrete door-to-door delivery)

Orders
  • Allows users to monitor past and current orders (HIVST kit, PrEP)

  • Allows users to track their current orders in real time (via application programming interface [API] integration of courier tracking)

  • Provides notifications on the status of their orders

Labs
  • Allows users to view their lab test results

  • Allows users to receive timely notifications about new lab results

Appointments
  • Allows users to view details about past and future appointments and make any necessary changes (eg, reschedule, cancel)

  • Allows users to meet with a doctor virtually (ie, e-consultation)

Mental Health
  • Allows users to self-screen for depression and receive results

  • Provides users with community resources and support services (ie, a list of mental health service providers)

  • Provides users with a personalized referral letter to mental health services to facilitate rapid linkagef

  • Allows users to keep track of previous mental health–screening results and access referral letters

MedManager
  • Allows users to set and receive personalized medication reminders

  • Provides users with reminders to refill their prescriptions

  • Allows users to view visual reports of their medication adherence

MoodTracker
  • Allows users to keep track of their mood daily

  • Provides users with a visual display of their mood over time

Messages (ie, chat)
  • Allows users to send and receive nonurgent medical questions to the clinic and research staff

Resources
  • Provides users with multimedia (text-, picture-, video-based) content of an array of relevant information (eg, HIV, PrEP, substance use, mental health)

News
  • Provides users with the latest health news updated regularly

Reward points
  • Allows users to accumulate points for completing activities in the app

  • Allow users to track and redeem points for cash or in-app purchases

JomPrEP Clinic Dashboard
  • Includes a web-based dashboard for the clinics affiliated with the JomPrEP app

  • Allows staff members of the affiliated clinics (ie, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, front-desk staff) to access the dashboard to facilitate patient care for JomPrEP app users

  • In the absence of an electronic health record (EHR) in the local setting, functions more like the EHR system

aHIVST: HIV self-testing.

bPrEP: pre-exposure prophylaxis.

cReceive PrEP at the first doctor visit (no need to wait for lab results).

dGet PrEP after lab results are complete (need a follow-up doctor visit to review lab results).

eApplies only to those who choose traditional PrEP.

fIncludes a referral letter for mental health.