The User-Centered Design of a Clinical Dashboard and Patient-Facing App for Gestational Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of pregnancies affected by gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is growing. With the increased use of smartphones and predictive modeling, a mobile health (mHealth) solution could be developed to improve care and management of GDM while streamlining care through risk stratification.

Methods

A user-centered mHealth tool was designed from ethnographic observations and 11 semi-structured interviews (six health care professionals [HCPs] and five women with GDM), followed by iterative changes and evaluation from three feedback groups with 31 participants (17 HCPs, 14 researchers) and 13 questionnaires with women with GDM.

Results

"MyGDM" includes a clinical dashboard that centralizes the clinic's patients, highlighting off-target blood glucose and pred

SUBMITTER: Kirkwood JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11607713 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature