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Reaching Out to Patients with Mobile Apps: The “ Prostate Pal ” and “ Bladder Pal ” Story

Reaching Out to Patients with Mobile Apps: The “ Prostate Pal ” and “ Bladder Pal ” Story Ronald L. Yap, M.D. App Functionality. Background. Development Timeline. Impact.

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Reaching Out to Patients with Mobile Apps: The “ Prostate Pal ” and “ Bladder Pal ” Story

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  1. Reaching Out to Patients with Mobile Apps: The “Prostate Pal” and “Bladder Pal” Story Ronald L. Yap, M.D. App Functionality Background Development Timeline Impact • With hundreds of millions of smartphones and tablets in use worldwide, the “post-PC” revolution is an opportunity to improve doctor/patient communication and improve healthcare • Mobile apps can be the vehicle by which we can achieve these goals • This is my story of mobile app development in urology • Summer 2010 – Conceptualization • Fall/Winter 2010 – Apple iOS Development • Winter 2011- Prostate Pal released for Apple App Store • Named “New and Noteworthy” medical app – Apple App Store • Subject of story by Associated Press • Summer 2011 – Prostate Pal 2.0 released for Apple App Store • Added e-mail functionality • Fixed bugs in 1.0 • Added incontinence tracking • Summer 2011 – Bladder Pal released for Apple App Store • Fall/Winter 2011 – Android Development • Winter 2012 – Prostate Pal and Bladder Pal released for Android Market AUA Symptom Score – a seven item questionnaire to assess and track severity of urinary symptoms Release through 2/29/2012 Conclusions • Two intuitive, easy to use apps were created on multiple mobile platforms to track urologic health • The apps have widespread, international interest with over 3000 users from 69 countries. • Mobile technology in healthcare (mHealth) has the potential to greatly improve the doctor/patient relationship and efficiency of healthcare. Methods • Two apps were created to empower patients to track their urologic health – “Prostate Pal” and “Bladder Pal” • Prostate Pal contains: • Bladder diary • AUA urinary symptom score • PSA tracker • Bladder Pal contains: • Bladder diary • AUA urinary symptom score • Data is stored in the device and can be sent via e-mail to healthcare providers • Programming - Objective C 2.0 with the Apple Software Development Kit. Subsequent port to Android OS • Developer – 9Magnets, LLC – Bladder diary with entry page including leakage and incontinence pad data (left) and summary page (right) Acknowledgements Special thanks to Dean LeBaron, the LeBaron Foundation, and the Concord Hospital Trust for supporting this work. PSA tracker with table (left) and graph (right) formats Home screens for Prostate Pal and Bladder Pal

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