Park Yu Rang, Lee Yura, Lee Guna, Lee Jae Ho, Shin Soo-Yong
Clinical Research Center, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 138-736, Korea.
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 138-736, Korea.
Sensors (Basel). 2015 Apr 27;15(5):9854-69. doi: 10.3390/s150509854.
Smartphones have been widely used recently to monitor heart rate and activity, since they have the necessary processing power, non-invasive and cost-effective sensors, and wireless communication capabilities. Consequently, healthcare applications (apps) using smartphone-based sensors have been highlighted for non-invasive physiological monitoring. In addition, several healthcare apps have received FDA clearance. However, in spite of their potential, healthcare apps with smartphone-based sensors are mostly used outside of hospitals and have not been widely adopted for patient care in hospitals until recently. In this paper, we describe the experience of using smartphone apps with sensors in a large medical center in Korea. Among >20 apps developed in our medical center, four were extensively analyzed ("My Cancer Diary", "Point-of-Care HIV Check", "Blood Culture" and "mAMIS"), since they use smartphone-based sensors such as the camera and barcode reader to enter data into the electronic health record system. By analyzing the usage patterns of these apps for data entry with sensors, the current limitations of smartphone-based sensors in a clinical setting, hurdles against adoption in the medical center, benefits of smartphone-based sensors and potential future research directions could be evaluated.
近年来，智能手机因其具备必要的处理能力、非侵入性且经济高效的传感器以及无线通信功能，已被广泛用于监测心率和活动情况。因此，基于智能手机传感器的医疗保健应用程序（应用）在非侵入性生理监测方面受到了关注。此外，一些医疗保健应用已获得美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的批准。然而，尽管基于智能手机传感器的医疗保健应用具有潜力，但这些应用大多在医院外使用，直到最近才在医院的患者护理中得到广泛应用。在本文中，我们描述了在韩国一家大型医疗中心使用带传感器的智能手机应用的经验。在我们医疗中心开发的20多款应用中，对四款应用（“我的癌症日记”、“即时护理艾滋病毒检测”、“血培养”和“移动医疗信息系统”）进行了深入分析，因为它们利用摄像头和条形码阅读器等基于智能手机的传感器将数据录入电子健康记录系统。通过分析这些带传感器的应用在数据录入方面的使用模式，可以评估基于智能手机的传感器在临床环境中的当前局限性、在医疗中心采用时面临的障碍、基于智能手机的传感器的优势以及未来潜在的研究方向。
