Developing a Mobile COVID-19 Prototype Management Application Integrated With an Electronic Health Record for Effective Management in Hospitals

Abstract

This article aimed to develop a mobile application for the management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We analyzed the pilot version with satisfaction through a survey and an interview with health workers from Sidi Said, a local hospital located in Mekn es, Morocco, which receives patients suffering from COVID-19. Methods: We have formed a team effort that involves health professionals, specialists from various fields and who participated in the design process of this project. It is a review of the existing literature and interviews with health professionals seeking to trace all the functions of this application. The user interface graphics, whether at the hospital or patient application level, were reviewed for effective usability by a multidisciplinary team. After having had to develop the pilot version of the application, the usefulness and the gratitude of the application were evaluated by eight patients and carers by means of a utility test, based on a real scenario, a utility survey. The objective is to ensure communication between the mobile application and the decision support application at the emergency services level to facilitate the detection of people who had developed COVID-19 as well as follow-up at home for detected patients. Results: The COVID-19 mobile management application provides capture functions and can afford information that helps in the prescription of appropriate drugs to patients at home. It is used to identify people who have been in contact with people who have tested positive for COVID-19, to carry out a large-scale screening by sending alert messages to these people, and to follow up via geolocation. There is also the possibility via Bluetooth, for the monitoring of patients without the activation of the Geolocation option. The approach adopted aims to reduce congestion in hospitals by identifying people suffering from respiratory illnesses or who may be contaminated, and monitoring them remotely. We offered six functions to achieve the objective of this project. Main: Respiratory crisis journal, medication recall, appointment, survey of people contacted, personal equipment and dashboard, daily traceability and monitoring, and geolocation. We have integrated the application of the electronic healthcare registration system in hospitals. To simplify usability, the frequently used functions, which are relatively important, can be found on the main page under the heading "COVID-19 monitoring" (in French: COVID-19 monitoring), and "Medication log" (in French: Journal medication). In addition, during graphic design, art therapy was used to improve the psychological stability of the patient. Eight participants were employed for the evaluation. For scenario-based tasks, out of ten tasks, all participants can record the entries in detail. The system use scale score was ß IEEE 2020. This article is free to access and download, along with rights for full text and data mining, re-use and analysis. DEVELOPING A MOBILE COVID-19 PROTOTYPE MANAGEMENT APPLICATION INTEGRATED WITH AN ELECTRO...

Mobile Application on Stopping the Contagion of Covid-19 to Reduce Congestion in Hospitals

“…In the work [2] was made a mobile application that consists of following up people who had COVID-19 offering information on appropriate medications for patients, allowing to identify the symptoms and people who have had contact with patients who tested positive by sending alert messages, which is similar to the proposed project that is to identify user symptoms, however does not show a section of respondents on the operation of the mobile application, instead the project shows a survey that was conducted to 20 people on the operation of the mobile application with their respective statistical graphs.…”

“…Similar applications that are considered for this research can be seen in the case of Morocco, which developed a mobile application that consists of following up people who had COVID-19, offering information on appropriate medications for patients, allows identifying symptoms and people who have had contact with COVID-19 positive patients by sending alert messages, this application helps to reduce congestion in hospitals [2].…”

Mobile App Design: Logging and Diagnostics of Respiratory Diseases

“…This research [12] explains that mobile applications, by integrating medical records electronically into the health record system of hospitals, facilitate the management of medical treatments and interventions. The application made for the local hospital Sidi Said located in Meknès -Morocco resulted in a high rate of approval by patients by obtaining positive results in improving their health by monitoring their illnesses at home and by the patients.…”

The Affordances of Practice and Research Knowledge

“…The developments of both types of technologies can inform designs and evaluate affordances for healthcare of robots and mobile medicine [6]. These articles build on the strong technological developments in COVID-19 that we have covered in previous issues (e.g., see [7] and [8]).…”