Location
260-055, Owen G. Glenn Building
Start Date
12-15-2014
Description
With the advent of advanced IT, innovations in the healthcare industry have stimulated a move toward patient-centric healthcare systems. Especially, mobile devices have attracted attention due to their capability to transfer autonomy from care providers to patients to promote patients’ health improvement. This study focuses on the self-feedback that enables patients to manage their own health information, and investigates its effects on patients’ continued use of mobile personal health record (mPHR) applications using log-data of 1,727 mPHR app users. The results show that the frequent use of the self-feedback function encourages patients to use the app for a long time and be less likely to abandon the mPHR app whereas other functions do not. The results are striking since the proportion of use of the self-feedback function is just 9% of the total usage. This research suggests significant implications regarding the efficacy of self-feedback to promote health improvement.
Recommended Citation
Kwon, Hyeyon; Lee, Kyunghee; and Lee, Byungtae, "The Effects of Self-Feedback Function on Continued Use of Mobile Personal Health Record Application" (2014). ICIS 2014 Proceedings. 32.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2014/proceedings/ISHealthcare/32
The Effects of Self-Feedback Function on Continued Use of Mobile Personal Health Record Application
260-055, Owen G. Glenn Building
With the advent of advanced IT, innovations in the healthcare industry have stimulated a move toward patient-centric healthcare systems. Especially, mobile devices have attracted attention due to their capability to transfer autonomy from care providers to patients to promote patients’ health improvement. This study focuses on the self-feedback that enables patients to manage their own health information, and investigates its effects on patients’ continued use of mobile personal health record (mPHR) applications using log-data of 1,727 mPHR app users. The results show that the frequent use of the self-feedback function encourages patients to use the app for a long time and be less likely to abandon the mPHR app whereas other functions do not. The results are striking since the proportion of use of the self-feedback function is just 9% of the total usage. This research suggests significant implications regarding the efficacy of self-feedback to promote health improvement.