Developing Apps for Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic with the TrackYourHealth Platform

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13954v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:22:51 GMT
• Title: Developing Apps for Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic with the TrackYourHealth Platform
• Authors: Carsten Vogel, R\"udiger Pryss, Johannes Schobel, Winfried Schlee and Felix Beierle
• Abstract summary: Scientists and medical doctors are mainly interested in researching, monitoring, and improving physical and mental health of the general population. Mobile health apps (mHealth), and apps conducting ecological momentary assessments (EMA) respectively, can help in this context. However, developing such mobile applications poses many challenges like costly software development efforts, strict privacy rules, compliance with ethical guidelines, local laws, and regulations.
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• Abstract: Through lockdowns and other severe changes to daily life, almost everyone is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists and medical doctors are - among others - mainly interested in researching, monitoring, and improving physical and mental health of the general population. Mobile health apps (mHealth), and apps conducting ecological momentary assessments (EMA) respectively, can help in this context. However, developing such mobile applications poses many challenges like costly software development efforts, strict privacy rules, compliance with ethical guidelines, local laws, and regulations. In this paper, we present TrackYourHealth (TYH), a highly configurable, generic, and modular mobile data collection and EMA platform, which enabled us to develop and release two mobile multi-platform applications related to COVID-19 in just a few weeks. We present TYH and highlight specific challenges researchers and developers of similar apps may also face, especially when developing apps related to the medical field.

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