Developing Medical Condition Management Applications Using Manage My Condition

Abstract

Given the increasing availability and accessibility of mobile devices, there is enormous potential to transform how healthcare is administered through the creation of highly customized smartphone-based applications for effective medical condition management. Such platforms can offer improvements for both patients and healthcare systems. However, a critical barrier to achieving these tantalizing benefits in healthcare management is the current paradigm of medical software design. Development and deployment of enterprise-wide applications is generally slow and expensive. Furthermore, each application is developed independently, even if several functionalities overlap between different applications. In this demonstration, we present our experience in the development of three mobile applications for medical condition management, namely ManageMyAsthma, ManageMyMedications and ManageMyPatients, which led to the creation of ManageMyCondition, a standard framework for the development of medical condition management applications.