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Beyond Health Apps, Utilize Patient-Generated Data

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This paper presents the rational for a novel bespoke data-centric digital health platform i.e. Platform for Health Apps, Surveys and Education (PhASE). The conceptual design and prototype development of PhASE is discussed in detail. The aim of the research-centered and patient-centric digital health platform is to enable rapid research-study design; real-time data collection hub; and enable mobile education and training. The mobile collection and curation of health data is on the rise, but without any suitable data collection hub; aggregation and analysis of these isolated data streams is expensive. Digital health is focused on health applications (healthApps) and in last few years there is a growth of disconnected diverse healthApps; which are lacking a sustainable eco-system; compliance to the medical protocols; reliability and any long-term vision. There is also a serious concern as to the clinical effectiveness of the abundantly available healthApps, which exist without any regulatory control.

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We acknowledge the funding from the Nanyang Technological University to the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine/Centre for Population Health Sciences (CePHaS).

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  1. Centre for Population Health Sciences (CePHaS), LKC Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Asif Akram, Gerard Dunleavy, Michael Soljak & Josip Car

  2. Global eHealth Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK

    Asif Akram & Josip Car

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Akram, A., Dunleavy, G., Soljak, M., Car, J. (2017). Beyond Health Apps, Utilize Patient-Generated Data. In: Damaševičius, R., Mikašytė, V. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 756. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67642-5_6

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