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. 2017:245:1230.

The Development of mWellcare, an mHealth System for the Integrated Management of Hypertension and Diabetes in Primary Care

Devraj Jindal  1 , Priti Gupta  1 , Dilip Jha  1 , Vamadevan S Ajay  1 , Pramod Jacob  1 , Kriti Mehrotra  2 , Pablo Perel  3 , Jonathan Nyong  3 , Ambuj Roy  4 , Nikhil Tandon  4 , Dorairaj Prabhakaran  1 , Vikram Patel  3
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The Development of mWellcare, an mHealth System for the Integrated Management of Hypertension and Diabetes in Primary Care

Devraj Jindal et al. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017.

Abstract

This paper describes development of mhealth application "mWellcare" for the integrated management of hypertension and diabetes in public primary health care settings. mWellcare application was developed in four phases: identifying gaps in usual care; identifying components of intervention; developing intervention; evaluating acceptability and feasibility through pilot testing. Final version of mWellcare application is capable of computing personalized evidence-based management plan for hypertension, diabetes and co-morbid conditions (depression and alcohol use disorder).

Keywords: Chronic Disease; Clinical; Decision Support Systems; Primary Health Care.

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