Evaluation of Mobile Phone Healthcare Applications During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Hamid Reza Saeidnia; Zahra Mohammadzadeh; Mohammad Hassanzadeh

doi:10.3233/SHTI210363

Evaluation of Mobile Phone Healthcare Applications During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 May 27:281:1100-1101. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210363.

Authors

Hamid Reza Saeidnia¹, Zahra Mohammadzadeh², Mohammad Hassanzadeh³

Affiliations

¹ Information Management, Department of knowledge and information science, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran.
² Health Information Technology, Department of Health Information Technology, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
³ Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 34042856
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI210363

Abstract

Our aim in the present study was to evaluate the HealthBuddy+ smartphone app, designed and implemented by the World Health Organization for the European region. For this purpose, we have used Heuristic evaluation method. The tools utilized in this study included 10 heuristics and measure System Usability Scale (SUS), as well as Nielsen's five-point Severity Ranking Scale.

Keywords: App; Covid-19; Evaluation; Healthcare.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Cell Phone*
Delivery of Health Care
Humans
Mobile Applications*
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2