Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2025
Date Accepted: May 5, 2026
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User-Centered Development of a Digital Platform to Provide Neurorehabilitation Patients With Feedback on Health Data
ABSTRACT
Background:
An increasing amount of digital health data is being collected across rehabilitation settings - but its integration into routine clinical practice remains limited, despite its potential to motivate patients or inform clinical decision-making.
Objective:
This study presents a mobile application that delivers structured, interpretable feedback from clinical and technology-based assessments to neurorehabilitation patients and healthcare practitioners (HCPs).
Methods:
Developed through an iterative co-design process with 17 persons after a neurological injury and 15 HCPs, the app integrates common conventional assessment outcomes, and digital health metrics from the Virtual Peg Insertion Test - as a proof of concept for the integration of technology-based assessments. Stakeholders evaluated feedback types, visualization formats, and usability across three structured sessions.
Results:
Progress bars and simple illustrations were consistently preferred for clarity and engagement. The resulting mobile application prototype demonstrated high usability (System Usability Scale: patients = 93.6; clinicians = 80.9) and enhanced the perceived value of feedback in supporting patient motivation and clinical decision-making, compared to perceptions reported before users were shown how such feedback could be presented.
Conclusions:
These findings underline the potential of digital tools to bridge data interpretation gaps in neurorehabilitation and support value-based, personalized care delivery.
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