Your Patient Has a New Health App? Start With Its Data Source

Keith E Morse; Jonathan Schremp; Natalie M Pageler; Jonathan P Palma

doi:10.2196/14288

Your Patient Has a New Health App? Start With Its Data Source

J Particip Med. 2019 Jun 17;11(2):e14288. doi: 10.2196/14288.

Authors

Keith E Morse^#^{1

2}, Jonathan Schremp^#², Natalie M Pageler^#^{2

3}, Jonathan P Palma^#^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
² Department of Clinical Informatics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
³ Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
⁴ Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 33055064
PMCID: PMC7434101
DOI: 10.2196/14288

Abstract

Recent regulatory and technological advances have enabled a new era of health apps that are controlled by patients and contain valuable health information. These health apps will be numerous and use novel interfaces that appeal to patients but will likely be unfamiliar to practitioners. We posit that understanding the origin of the health data is the most meaningful and versatile way for physicians to understand and effectively use these apps in patient care. This will allow providers to better support patients and encourage patient engagement in their own care.

Keywords: clinical informatics; electronic health records; health information technology.

©Keith E Morse, Jonathan Schremp, Natalie M Pageler, Jonathan P Palma. Originally published in Journal of Participatory Medicine (http://jopm.jmir.org), 17.06.2019.