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GeriatricHelper: Iterative Development of a Mobile Application to Support Geriatric Assessment

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Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth 2017)

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Clinical assessment scales for specific medical subareas include domain knowledge that may not be of general awareness among practitioners, hindering the adoption of best practices. In this context, we propose a pocket guide for comprehensive geriatric assessment as a mobile application. The GeriatricHelper is an Android mHealth application developed under an iterative, User-Centered Design approach. Feedback from a broad set of users including domain experts has been obtained throughout and a functional prototype is currently being tested in a Portuguese hospital, allowing for any clinician to apply the otherwise experts-limited geriatric assessment.

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The authors would like to thank the fruitful collaboration of SPMI-GERMI, especially Paulo Almeida, MD. This research is partially funded by Portuguese National Funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, in the context of the project UID/CEC/00127/2013 and Marie Curie IAPP project IRIS (ref. 610986). Samuel Silva is funded by FCT grant SFRH/BPD/108151/2015.

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  1. IEETA/DETI, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Rafael Pinto, Ilídio C. Oliveira & Samuel Silva

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  1. Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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    Amir M. Rahmani

  3. ICT, Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Nima TaheriNejad

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Pinto, R., Oliveira, I.C., Silva, S. (2018). GeriatricHelper: Iterative Development of a Mobile Application to Support Geriatric Assessment. In: Perego, P., Rahmani, A., TaheriNejad, N. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98551-0_17

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