Mobile health apps for medical emergencies: systematic review

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dc.contributor.authorPlaza Roncero, Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Gonçalo
dc.contributor.authorSainz de Abajo, Beatriz
dc.contributor.authorMartín Rodríguez, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorPozo Vegas, Carlos del
dc.contributor.authorGarcía-Zapirain, Begoña
dc.contributor.authorTorre Díez, Isabel de la
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-13T12:00:30Z
dc.date.available2026-03-13T12:00:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-02
dc.date.updated2026-03-13T12:00:30Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: Mobile health apps are used to improve the quality of health care. These apps are changing the current scenario in health care, and their numbers are increasing. Objective: We wanted to perform an analysis of the current status of mobile health technologies and apps for medical emergencies. We aimed to synthesize the existing body of knowledge to provide relevant insights for this topic. Moreover, we wanted to identify common threads and gaps to support new challenging, interesting, and relevant research directions. Methods: We reviewed the main relevant papers and apps available in the literature. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology was used in this review. The search criteria were adopted using systematic methods to select papers and apps. On one hand, a bibliographic review was carried out in different search databases to collect papers related to each application in the health emergency field using defined criteria. On the other hand, a review of mobile apps in two virtual storage platforms (Google Play Store and Apple App Store) was carried out. The Google Play Store and Apple App Store are related to the Android and iOS operating systems, respectively. Results: In the literature review, 28 papers in the field of medical emergency were included. These studies were collected and selected according to established criteria. Moreover, we proposed a taxonomy using six groups of applications. In total, 324 mobile apps were found, with 192 identified in the Google Play Store and 132 identified in the Apple App Store. Conclusions: We found that all apps in the Google Play Store were free, and 73 apps in the Apple App Store were paid, with the price ranging from US $0.89 to US $5.99. Moreover, 39% (11/28) of the included studies were related to warning systems for emergency services and 21% (6/28) were associated with disaster management apps.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research has been partially supported by the European Commission and the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism under the project AAL-20125036 named “Wetake Care: ICT-based Solution for (Self-) Management of Daily Living"en
dc.identifier.citationRoncero, A. P., Marques, G., Sainz-De-Abajo, B., Martín-Rodríguez, F., del Pozo Vegas, C., Garcia-Zapirain, B., & de la Torre-Díez, I. (2020). Mobile health apps for medical emergencies: systematic review. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 8(12). JMIR Publications Inc. https://doi.org/10.2196/18513
dc.identifier.doi10.2196/18513
dc.identifier.eissn2291-5222
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/5443
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJMIR Publications Inc.
dc.rights©Alejandro Plaza Roncero, Gonçalo Marques, Beatriz Sainz-De-Abajo, Francisco Martín-Rodríguez, Carlos del Pozo Vegas, Begonya Garcia-Zapirain, Isabel de la Torre-Díez
dc.subject.otherMobile health
dc.subject.othermHealth
dc.subject.othereHealth
dc.subject.otherAndroid
dc.subject.otheriOS
dc.subject.otherMedical emergencies
dc.subject.otherMobile apps
dc.titleMobile health apps for medical emergencies: systematic reviewen
dc.typereview article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.issue12
oaire.citation.titleJMIR mHealth and uHealth
oaire.citation.volume8
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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