If you want to build a mobile app

[Pongthep Miankaew]

If you want to build a mobile app, what app do you want to build and why? What types of mobile app (native, web, and hybrid app) would you like to choose to build? Please provide your reasons.

[Anawat ratchatorn]

If I am able to create some mobile app right now, It would be an app that can assist doctor to work easier.
I will build an app assisting Orthopedist to measure joints’ angle called ‘ROM (Range of Motion)’ by using phone camera. Nowadays Orthopedist usually use physical equipment to measure ROM that is not convenient. To use this application, Orthopedist just pan their phone camera to specific joint, then it is automatically measured. Furthermore, this app can also use to store measurements and organized data into each patient’s file, therefore, doctor can see the progression of treatment or progression of disease.

The most important thing for medical app is about reliability, so I decide to use native app development. Native app built for specific OS, this made the app work smoothly. Although, I must build the app to be compatible for both iOS and Android , It’s worth for it performance.

Another issue to be concern is patient privacy, this app has to access phone camera and some patients might feel uncomfortable when doctor use this app to examine them.

[Pongthep Miankaew]

I agree. Absolutely, when comparing native apps and cross-platforms which coded once and deployed to multiple OS like ios and android, native app has better performance because it manage mobile phone’s resources better.

Thank you,
Pongthep

[Karina Dian Lestari]

I would like to build a hybrid app for data collection. Native app for the data input and web app for data visualisation and dashboard. Native app is really convenient, you practically bring it everywhere because it is on your phone. It is useful for when people are collecting data outside (for example when they are doing a survey or contact tracing), no need to bring paper and pen, just input it directly to the phone. While seeing data summary with charts, graphs, maps are more convenient if seen on a bigger screen, so web app can help with that.

[Pongthep Miankaew]

Nice idea to collect the data using a hybrid mobile app, if your app does not connect to mobile phone’s hardware like camera, gallery, and memory. Your mobile app can send the data to an online database, then visualize it as reports or dashboard in a web app on the bigger screen.

Thank you,
Pongthep

[Navin Prasai]

Hybrid apps are the combination of web app and native app and these days their applications are increasing day by day. Unlike native apps they are used for all platforms and as in web app can be uploaded easily. It is less expensive as compare to a native app and convenient to create as it uses HTML language. It can also be used in offline mapping.

[Auswin Rojanasumapong]

I would like to build an app for patients to access their health profiles. The data must be updated and can be accessed from their device to use as a document to prove that they have been vaccinated or they are healthy to perform a certain task (with proper consent from the individual). My experience with this issue is that many patients do not have a properly documented vaccine history in their hands (their documents might be old or lost since they must be kept since they were born). When they need to work, travel, or study (especially medical students and health care providers, because many institutes require vaccination before visit or work), they could not find the document, or the credibility of the documents might be questioned from the institute whether it is acceptable for the proof of vaccination. This app might store other health data, such as the latest check-up result, screening results for certain infectious diseases.

This app should be developed as a hybrid app because
It requires proper authentication methods (biometric recognition e.g. fingerprint sensor, iris scanner) and needs to access hardware services.
The data must be updated in real-time and integrated with the existing database (health check-up results, lab results)
The app must be available on at least 2 common mobile platforms (iOS and Android)

[Pongthep Miankaew]

Great idea! Developing a mobile app for health data collection, especially the collection of vaccination and treatment history data. One thing that has to be very important is data integrity. In the process of data collection, data store, and data retrieval, there must be a mechanism to ensure that the data has not been altered by any unauthorized person or process. Nowadays, one of the technologies being used is Blockchain.

Thank you,
Pongthep

[Navin Prasai]

I would like to build mobile web apps as they work across multiple platforms, secured and convenient to update. During this pandemic , mobile web apps can play a significant role in the healthcare sector. For instance, virtual doctor’s consultation in remote areas and online pharmacies.

[Pongthep Miankaew]

Good idea, however, creating a cross-platform mobile app requires app performance, as this technology also has a drawback in writing apps that use mobile hardware which is also less efficient when compared to native apps.

Thank you,
Pongthep

[Tossapol Prapassaro]

If possible, I would like to build a mobile app that can calculate the size and depth of the wound automatically because my job participates in wound management also, so it would be excellent if I take a picture on a mobile phone and use that application to see how the wound progress and for research purpose on wound healing. I don’t know much about the type of mobile app to choose, but it could be a native app because the app would have to connect to camera.

[Auswin Rojanasumapong]

I think it would be very useful for telemedicine in assessing wound severity, and I agree with you that it should be a native app in order to use most of the camera performance. However, in my opinion, there should be a minimal requirement of the hardware that the app needs because the camera resolution might affect the grading of the wound.

[Tossapol Prapassaro]

Thank you for your comment.

[TARO KITA]

I would like to develop an app for health needs data collection from the communities. It is going to be a native app with single platform, given the expected context where the Internet access is one of the challenges, and also for the sake of cost effectiveness including its maintenance.

[Ashaya.i]

I agree with the idea of creating the app that can access personal health data only for some authorized data. People should able to access their health data status as necessary such as their exact underlying disease which is some people don’t understand about their certain health status, their medicine list and how to use it. In my opinion, I think some people cannot understand their health status by just communicate with healthcare provider. Verbal communicate sometimes causes misunderstanding especially in elderly, so I think accessing personal health data app can help people to explore some necessary data to take care themselves and their family properly. By doing so, the privacy and safety of the app should be concerned in the total agreement between patient and healthcare provider. The type of mobile app that I want to use is a hybrid app because it needs to continuously develop and can be access from a wide variety of devices.

[chanapong]

I would like to build a native application that can analyze human gait. Human gait analysis can provide information about weakness, spasticity, or abnormal movement. However, analyzing the gait is dependent on the experience of physicians. The application could provide more accurate information on the degree of movement of the involved joints, the pathophysiology of abnormal gait, and gait speed by using a mobile phone camera like motion capture technology.

[Sri Budi Fajariyan]

I would build an app for the malaria field supervision checklist. With the supervision checklist form that will be carried out according to standards and can find out the gaps in the problems in the field and with the application made, the results of supervision can be analyzed further. I will make a web-based mobile apps application so that it can be integrated with malaria information system applications

[Pimthong Sinchai]

If I have to build a mobile app, It would be a medical dictionary. Because I have work with a lot of clinical terminology of a medical word so, it would be nice if I can access the source from my mobile app for convenience. And I would love to choose a hybrid app because they can access from many platforms such as mobile app and websites, and as I said it will make users more convenient than native apps which can access only one platform.

Thank you

[Pisit Saiwangjit]

As for me, I would be glad to develop an mobile applications, as a web app, which able to tracking the patient laboratory results. Based on my experience, it was hard to provide appropriate treatment plan on ward rounds when particular laboratory values were undefined. The app should be developed as web app which required hospital intranet hence the patient information is rather confidential and it can use on various platforms.

[Taksin Ukkahad]

If I can create a mobile application, I would like to build a medical emergency application for geriatric patient which will alert to their care giver. The application will access patient cardiac rhythm using connected smart watch and analyze the emergency abnormal EKG and alert to the care giver as well as the location of event. Not only EKG, this mobile app will analyze patient motion, it will be detected patient’s falling which is a common geriatric problem. For the app, it will be made by principle of hybrid application that can access from multiple platforms which convenient for the users.

Taksin U.

[Weerada Trongtranonth]

If I can create the mobile application, It would be a health predictive web-based application that can link with HIS. The users must be the patients who can see the trend of being some popular diseases and they should aware of taking care themselves to be health person.

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