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Physician-reported experience and usability of the MyPal platform: a palliative care digital health intervention

Poster Area

Lecturers: Panos Bonotis, Pantelis Natsiavas

Track: MIE: Posters

There is a clear demand based on the literature for improvements in the designed digital health interventions for palliative cancer care on the basis of all stakeholder needs. A recent review of digital health interventions across multiple diseases found that usability from the physician's side was assessed in only 33% of studies. MyPal is a collaborative H2020 research project aiming to use eHealth technologies in order to support palliative care for cancer patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs), via the adoption of the electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) paradigm. The MyPal platform includes an HCP web application, with various modules to support the HCPs, where mainly ePRO data collected from patients are presented in an interactive dashboard via data-intensive visual analytics. The presented study’s primary objective was to evaluate HCPs' perception of usability and satisfaction with the use of the HCP web app, and overall experience of using the system during the RCT in parallel with their routine obligations via standardized quantitative questionnaires after sustained use of a digital health intervention using this web application. This study offers insights into physician satisfaction, preferences, and perceptions of the MyPal HCP web platform. Based on the participants’ feedback, the MyPal HCP web platform is accepted in terms of usability, and noticeably the system’s usefulness is highlighted by all participants' responses. The satisfaction levels of the individual features of the platform are also acceptable. Although in terms of usability the web application is relatively well accepted, it should be noted that bug fixes were sometimes necessary, and this could significantly affect the user experience evaluation. Moreover, based on the answers provided to the open-ended questions some extra features would also be useful.


Language

English

Seminar type

On site only

Objective of lecture

Other

Level of knowledge

Advanced

Target audience

Technicians/IT/Developers
Researchers
Students
Care professionals
Healthcare professionals
Patient/user organizations

Keyword

Actual examples (good/bad)
Benefits/effects
Test/validation
Usability

Conference

MIE

Authors

Panos Bonotis, Pantelis Natsiavas

Lecturers

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Panos Bonotis Lecturer

Research and Development Associate, PhD Candidate
Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas

Informatics & Telecommunications Engineer.
Ph.D. Student in UX Engineering in eHealth.
UX Enthusiast
Currently working as Research Associate Usability Engineer and Software Engineer at the Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB/CERTH) at Thessaloniki on national Greece-funded and EU-funded projects.
Involved in plenty voluntary actions

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Pantelis Natsiavas Lecturer

Researcher
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)

I am a researcher at the Institute of Applied Biosciences, heading the eHealth Lab. I am an Engineer by background, with experience in Software Engineering both in industry and research. My personal research interest has to do with the use of computational approaches to support drug safety.