Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Oct 19, 2018
Open Peer Review Period: Oct 23, 2018 - Dec 1, 2018
Date Accepted: Feb 12, 2019
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
Design and development of a smartphone app for nurses care at bedside using an adapted SDLC model
ABSTRACT
Background:
Nurses are increasingly spending time on computers and providing them with a tailored tool to access clinical information and perform documentation at the bedside could help to improve their efficiency. Designing an app to support nurses’ work at bedside is a challenging task given the complexity of care process.
Objective:
We present the design, development and testing of a smartphone app for nurses guided by an adapted software development life cycle model that takes into consideration the complexity and the constraints of a healthcare setting.
Methods:
The model drives us through an iterative development process intersected by 3 stages of formative evaluation of growing ecological validity.
Results:
The interpretation of the collected evaluation confirms the necessary involvement of end-user early in the process to help address the heterogeneity of the nursing workflow processes in the different wards. We also highlight the delicate balance between high security measures to protect access to patient data and maintaining ease of access for efficiency and usability.
Conclusions:
Although a close collaboration with clinicians throughout the entire project facilitated the development of a tailored solution, it was also important to involve all stakeholders, in particular the IT security officers
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