Atkinson Katherine M, El-Khatib Ziad, Barnum Geoffery, Bell Cameron, Turcotte Marie-Claude, Murphy Malia S Q, Teitelbaum Mari, Chakraborty Pranesh, Laflamme Lucie, Wilson Kumanan
PhD candidate in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and Lead, Research and Business Development, Ottawa Hospital mHealth Lab, Clinical Epidemiology Program, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Ms. Atkinson is studying the application of mobile technologies to improve public health outcomes.
Assistant professor at the Karolinska Institutet, World Health Programme-Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT). Dr. El-Khatib is a senior researcher working on testing mHealth solutions, in collaboration with the Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), in limited-resource settings.
Healthc Q. 2017;20(3):41-46. doi: 10.12927/hcq.2017.25289.
Medicine is experiencing a paradigm shift, where patients are increasingly involved in the management of their health data. We created a mobile app which permitted parental reporting of immunization status to public health authorities. We describe app use as a proxy for feasibility and acceptability as well as data utility for public health surveillance. The evaluation period ran from April 27, 2015, to April 18, 2017, during which time 2,653 unique children's records were transmitted, containing 36,105 vaccinations. Our findings suggest that mobile immunization reporting is feasible and may be an acceptable complement to existing reporting methods. Measures of data utility suggest that mobile reporting could enable more accurate assessments of vaccine coverage.
医学正在经历一场范式转变，患者越来越多地参与到自身健康数据的管理中。我们创建了一个移动应用程序，允许家长向公共卫生当局报告免疫接种状况。我们将应用程序的使用作为可行性、可接受性以及公共卫生监测数据效用的一个指标。评估期从2015年4月27日至2017年4月18日，在此期间共传输了2653份独特的儿童记录，包含36105次疫苗接种。我们的研究结果表明，移动免疫接种报告是可行的，并且可能是现有报告方法的一种可接受的补充。数据效用的衡量表明，移动报告可以使疫苗接种覆盖率的评估更加准确。
