Department of Signal Theory and Communications, and Telematics Engineering, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
Polytechnic of Coimbra, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Oliveira do Hospital, Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal.
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2020 Dec 11;8(12):e18513. doi: 10.2196/18513.
Mobile health apps are used to improve the quality of health care. These apps are changing the current scenario in health care, and their numbers are increasing.
We wanted to perform an analysis of the current status of mobile health technologies and apps for medical emergencies. We aimed to synthesize the existing body of knowledge to provide relevant insights for this topic. Moreover, we wanted to identify common threads and gaps to support new challenging, interesting, and relevant research directions.
We reviewed the main relevant papers and apps available in the literature. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology was used in this review. The search criteria were adopted using systematic methods to select papers and apps. On one hand, a bibliographic review was carried out in different search databases to collect papers related to each application in the health emergency field using defined criteria. On the other hand, a review of mobile apps in two virtual storage platforms (Google Play Store and Apple App Store) was carried out. The Google Play Store and Apple App Store are related to the Android and iOS operating systems, respectively.
In the literature review, 28 papers in the field of medical emergency were included. These studies were collected and selected according to established criteria. Moreover, we proposed a taxonomy using six groups of applications. In total, 324 mobile apps were found, with 192 identified in the Google Play Store and 132 identified in the Apple App Store.
We found that all apps in the Google Play Store were free, and 73 apps in the Apple App Store were paid, with the price ranging from US $0.89 to US $5.99. Moreover, 39% (11/28) of the included studies were related to warning systems for emergency services and 21% (6/28) were associated with disaster management apps.
移动健康应用程序被用于改善医疗保健质量。这些应用程序正在改变医疗保健的现状，其数量正在增加。
我们想对医疗急救用移动健康技术和应用程序的现状进行分析。我们旨在综合现有知识体系，为该主题提供相关见解。此外，我们还希望确定常见的线索和差距，以支持新的具有挑战性、有趣和相关的研究方向。
我们对文献中主要的相关论文和应用程序进行了回顾。本综述采用了系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目（PRISMA）方法。使用系统方法来选择与每个健康急救应用程序相关的论文和应用程序，确定了搜索标准。一方面，在不同的搜索数据库中进行了文献回顾，以收集与健康急救领域的每个应用程序相关的论文，使用了定义的标准。另一方面，对两个虚拟存储平台（Google Play 商店和 Apple App Store）中的移动应用程序进行了审查。Google Play 商店和 Apple App Store 分别与 Android 和 iOS 操作系统相关。
在文献综述中，纳入了 28 篇医学急救领域的论文。根据既定标准收集和选择了这些研究。此外，我们提出了一个使用六组应用程序的分类法。共发现 324 个移动应用程序，其中 192 个在 Google Play 商店中，132 个在 Apple App Store 中。
我们发现，Google Play 商店中的所有应用程序都是免费的，Apple App Store 中有 73 个应用程序是付费的，价格从 0.89 美元到 5.99 美元不等。此外，28 篇纳入研究中有 39%（11/28）与紧急服务警告系统有关，21%（6/28）与灾害管理应用程序有关。
