Health Apps for Combating COVID-19: Descriptive Review and Taxonomy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile phone apps have been leveraged to combat the spread of COVID-19. However, little is known about these technologies' characteristics, technical features, and various applications in health care when responding to this public health crisis. The lack of understanding has led developers and governments to make poor choices about apps' designs, which resulted in creating less useful apps that are overall less appealing to consumers due to their technical flaws.

Objective

This review aims to identify, analyze, and categorize health apps related to COVID-19 that are currently available for consumers in app stores; in particular, it focuses on exploring their key technical features and classifying the purposes that these apps were designed to serve.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Almalki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7927949 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature