A Mobile Phone App for Bedside Nursing Care: Design and Development Using an Adapted Software Development Life Cycle Model

Ehrler, Frédéric; Lovis, Christian; Blondon, Katherine

doi:10.2196/12551

Scientific article

Open access

English

A Mobile Phone App for Bedside Nursing Care: Design and Development Using an Adapted Software Development Life Cycle Model

ContributorsEhrler, Frédéric; Lovis, Christian

; Blondon, Katherine

Published inJMIR mHealth and uHealth, vol. 7, no. 4, e12551

Publication date2019

Abstract

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 the bedside is a challenging task, given the complexity of the care process.

Keywords

mHealth
Nursing
Hospital information systems

Affiliation

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de radiologie et informatique médicale

Research group

Interfaces Homme-machine en milieu clinique (610)

Funding

Autre - Private Foundation of the University Hospitals of Geneva

Citation (ISO format)

EHRLER, Frédéric, LOVIS, Christian, BLONDON, Katherine. A Mobile Phone App for Bedside Nursing Care: Design and Development Using an Adapted Software Development Life Cycle Model. In: JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2019, vol. 7, n° 4, p. e12551. doi: 10.2196/12551