1. Development and QoE Evaluation of an iOS mHealth App for Self-Controlling and Education of Patients with Heart Diseases.
- Author
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Hamrioui, Sofiane, González, Jesús Herreros, Castillo, Gema, de la Torre-Díez, Isabel, and López-Coronado, Miguel
- Subjects
CARDIAC patients ,SELF-control ,PATIENT education ,MOBILE apps ,COMPUTER software industry - Abstract
In the last years, handheld devices have experienced an incredible boost and expansion and that expansion has propitiated the creation of a new software industry of mobile apps. These devices and apps are used in every aspect of life, including one of the most important, like is health care. This paper presents the development and QoE evaluation of an application called "Take care your Heart", designed to work on devices with iOS operative system embedded. This app is aimed to help people with heart problems, giving them some advice about some aspects of their disease, monitoring the doses of their medicines, saving different activities related to it and calculating their risk of suffering a cardiovascular accident. Knowing the level of satisfaction of our patients through this study will allow us to channel the efforts towards more friendly and accepted application by people with heart diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2018