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Abstract

Heart failure is a prevalent, progressive chronic disease costing in excess of $1billion per year in Australia alone. Disease self-management has positive implications for the patient and decreases healthcare usage. However, adherence to recommended guidelines is challenging and existing literature reports sub-optimal adherence. mHealth applications in chronic disease education have the potential to facilitate patient enablement for disease self-management. To the best of our knowledge no heart failure self-management application is available for safe use by our patients. In this paper, we present the process established to co-design a mHealth application in support of heart-failure self-management. For this development, an interdisciplinary team systematically proceeds through the phases of Stanford University's Design Thinking process; empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test with a user-centred philosophy. Using this clinician-led heart failure app research as a case study, we describe a sequence of procedures to engage with local patients, carers, software developers, eHealth experts and clinical colleagues to foster rigorously developed and locally relevant patient-facing mHealth solutions. Importantly, patients are engaged in each stage with ethnographic interviews, a series of workshops and multiple re-design iterations.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Woods, LS and Cummings, E and Duff, J and Walker, K
Keywords:	Co-design, Design Thinking, mHealth, application, heart failure, self- management
Journal or Publication Title:	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Publisher:	IOS Press
ISSN:	0926-9630
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-794-8-97
Copyright Information:	© 2017 The authors and IOS Press. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Cummings, E UTAS Profile: Cummings, E UTAS Profile: Duff, J UTAS Profile: Walker, K
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