The landscape of research on smartphone medical apps: Coherent taxonomy, motivations, open challenges and recommendations

Hussain M 1 , Al-Haiqi A 1 , Zaidan AA 2 , Zaidan BB 1 , Kiah ML 1 , Anuar NB 1 Show all authors , Abdulnabi M 1

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  • 1 Security Lab, Wisma R&D, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Security Lab, Wisma R&D, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Department of Computing, Faculty of Arts, Computing and Creative Industry, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia. Electronic address: aws.alaa@gmail.com
Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 2015 Dec;122(3):393-408.
PMID: 26412009 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.08.015

Abstract

To survey researchers' efforts in response to the new and disruptive technology of smartphone medical apps, mapping the research landscape form the literature into a coherent taxonomy, and finding out basic characteristics of this emerging field represented on: motivation of using smartphone apps in medicine and healthcare, open challenges that hinder the utility, and the recommendations to improve the acceptance and use of medical apps in the literature.

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