Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Mar 2, 2020
Date Accepted: Aug 17, 2020
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Mobile Health Applications for Medical Emergencies: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT
Background:
Mobile health applications, which are used to improve the quality of health care, are changing the health model, these being one of the fastest-growing categories.
Objective:
This paper aims to perform an analysis of the current status of one of the sub-branches of mobile health technologies and applications for medical emergencies. The authors aim to synthesize the existing body of knowledge to provide relevant insights for this topic. Another relevant goal is to identify common threads and gaps to support new challenging, interesting and relevant research directions.
Methods:
For this purpose, this document reviews the main relevant papers and applications available in the literature. The methodology used in this review has been established using different flowcharts. The search criteria have been conducted using systematic methods to select papers and applications. On the one hand, a bibliographic review has been carried out in different search databases to collect papers related to each application in the health emergencies field using defined criteria. On the other hand, a review of mobile applications in the two virtual storage platforms (Google Play and App Store) has been carried out. These virtual stores refer to the Android and IOS operating systems, respectively.
Results:
In the literature review, 28 papers in the field of medical emergencies are included. These studies have been collected and are selected according to the established criteria. Moreover, the authors propose a taxonomy using six groups of applications. In total, 324 mobile applications were found where 59% corresponded to the Google Play and 41% corresponded to the App Store.
Conclusions:
The authors found that 100% of the applications on Google Play are free and in the App Store 55.5% that are paid. Their prince ranges from between $ 0.89 and $ 5.99. Moreover, most of the papers included in this literature (39%) review are related to warning systems for emergency systems and disaster management applications (21%).
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