Can We Use Commercial Mobile Apps Instead of Research Mobile Apps in Healthcare Research?

Frontiers in Public Health

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Emre Sezgin¹ 

[1] The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, United States

关键词: mobile health;    mobile app;    mHealth;    research app;    healthcare research;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2021.685439

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Scientific research has been at the front line of unlocking many innovations and opportunities aswell as creating the evidence for methods and technologies. Similarly, there has been an increasingeffort on mobile health research to tackle healthcare communication and access problems atindividual and population level. However, there have been a number of problems limiting theprogress of mobile health research. The major road blocker has been the sustainability and reach ofRMA in real world use. This created a disparity between academia and industry in the developmentof digital health solutions and improving health outcomes for populations (1). Research fordeveloping apps and creating evidence take time and heavily depend on research fund withinpre-determined project period. Eventually, completing a research app prototype might take years.Whereas, the industry has been on the fast track in development, as creating sustainable pipelinefor emerging products and apps. Inevitable systemic differences have been mostly the reason toapart the path of these two domains.

【 授权许可】

CC BY