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題名 Hospital-Owned Apps in Taiwan: Nationwide Survey 作者 Liu, Hao-Yen;Lee, Wui-Chiang;Sun, Ying-Chou;Fen, Jun-Jeng;Chen, Tzeng-Ji;Chou, Li-Fang;Hwang, Shinn-Jang
周麗芳
Chou, Li-Fang貢獻者 財政學系 關鍵詞 Taiwan; hospitals; mHealth; mobile apps; telemedicine 日期 2018-01 上傳時間 18-Sep-2018 15:56:21 (UTC+8) 摘要 Background: Over the last decade, the use of mobile phone apps in the health care industry has grown rapidly. Owing to the high penetration rate of Internet use in Taiwan, hospitals are eager to provide their own apps to improve the accessibility of medical care for patients.Objective: The aims of this study were to provide an overview of the currently available hospital-owned apps in Taiwan and to conduct a cross-hospital comparison of app features.Methods: In May 2017, the availability of apps from all 414 hospitals in Taiwan was surveyed from the hospital home pages and the Google Play app store. The features of the downloaded apps were then examined in detail and, for each app, the release date of the last update, download frequency, and rating score were obtained from Google Play.Results: Among all the 414 hospitals in Taiwan, 150 (36.2%) owned Android apps that had been made available for public use, including 95% (18/19) of the academic medical centers, 77% (63/82) of the regional hospitals, and 22.0% (69/313) of the local community hospitals. Among the 13 different functionalities made available by the various hospital-owned apps, the most common were the doctor search (100%, 150/150), real-time queue monitoring (100%, 150/150), and online appointment scheduling (94.7%, 142/150) functionalities. The majority of apps (57.3%, 86/150) had a rating greater than 4 out of 5, 49.3% (74/150) had been updated at some point in 2017, and 36.0% (54/150) had been downloaded 10,000 to 50,000 times.Conclusions: More than one-third of the hospitals owned apps intended to increase patient access to health care. The most common app features might reflect the health care situation in Taiwan, where the overcrowded outpatient departments of hospitals operate in an open-access mode without any strict referral system. Further research should focus on the effectiveness and safety of these apps. 關聯 JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 6(1): e22.
PMID: 29339347資料類型 article DOI https://doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.8636 dc.contributor 財政學系 dc.creator (作者) Liu, Hao-Yen;Lee, Wui-Chiang;Sun, Ying-Chou;Fen, Jun-Jeng;Chen, Tzeng-Ji;Chou, Li-Fang;Hwang, Shinn-Jang en_US dc.creator (作者) 周麗芳 zh_TW dc.creator (作者) Chou, Li-Fang en_US dc.date (日期) 2018-01 dc.date.accessioned 18-Sep-2018 15:56:21 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 18-Sep-2018 15:56:21 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 18-Sep-2018 15:56:21 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/120108 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) Background: Over the last decade, the use of mobile phone apps in the health care industry has grown rapidly. Owing to the high penetration rate of Internet use in Taiwan, hospitals are eager to provide their own apps to improve the accessibility of medical care for patients.Objective: The aims of this study were to provide an overview of the currently available hospital-owned apps in Taiwan and to conduct a cross-hospital comparison of app features.Methods: In May 2017, the availability of apps from all 414 hospitals in Taiwan was surveyed from the hospital home pages and the Google Play app store. The features of the downloaded apps were then examined in detail and, for each app, the release date of the last update, download frequency, and rating score were obtained from Google Play.Results: Among all the 414 hospitals in Taiwan, 150 (36.2%) owned Android apps that had been made available for public use, including 95% (18/19) of the academic medical centers, 77% (63/82) of the regional hospitals, and 22.0% (69/313) of the local community hospitals. Among the 13 different functionalities made available by the various hospital-owned apps, the most common were the doctor search (100%, 150/150), real-time queue monitoring (100%, 150/150), and online appointment scheduling (94.7%, 142/150) functionalities. The majority of apps (57.3%, 86/150) had a rating greater than 4 out of 5, 49.3% (74/150) had been updated at some point in 2017, and 36.0% (54/150) had been downloaded 10,000 to 50,000 times.Conclusions: More than one-third of the hospitals owned apps intended to increase patient access to health care. The most common app features might reflect the health care situation in Taiwan, where the overcrowded outpatient departments of hospitals operate in an open-access mode without any strict referral system. Further research should focus on the effectiveness and safety of these apps. en_US dc.format.extent 108 bytes - dc.format.mimetype text/html - dc.relation (關聯) JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 6(1): e22. dc.relation (關聯) PMID: 29339347 dc.subject (關鍵詞) Taiwan; hospitals; mHealth; mobile apps; telemedicine en_US dc.title (題名) Hospital-Owned Apps in Taiwan: Nationwide Survey en_US dc.type (資料類型) article dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.2196/mhealth.8636 dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.8636
