ArticleJournal of medical systems2015
Free blood donation mobile applications.
Article in Journal of medical systems, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Gamification Approach to Provide Support About the Deferral Experience in Blood Donation: Design and Feasibility Study.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- The Impact of Digital Transformation on Blood Donation and Donor Characteristics.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2023Article
- The Impact of Social Media Applications on Donor Engagement and Retention in the Saudi Arabian Blood Donation System.Cureus · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the Wateen App in the Blood-Donation Process in Saudi Arabia.Journal of blood medicine · 2022Article
- Usage and Acceptability of the Wateen Application Among the Population of Saudi Arabia.Journal of blood medicine · 2021Article
- Evaluating the Privacy Policies of Mobile Personal Health Records for Pregnancy Monitoring.Journal of medical systems · 2018Article
- Determinants of Intention to Use Mobile Phone Caller Tunes to Promote Voluntary Blood Donation: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2018Article
- An Empirical Study of Neural Network-Based Audience Response Technology in a Human Anatomy Course for Pharmacy Students.Journal of medical systems · 2016Article
- A Framework for Evaluating the Software Product Quality of Pregnancy Monitoring Mobile Personal Health Records.Journal of medical systems · 2016Article
- Experiences and Results of Applying Tools for Assessing the Quality of a mHealth App Named Heartkeeper.Journal of medical systems · 2015Article
- Smart approaches for encouraging the blood donation.Asian journal of transfusion scienceReview
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Abstract
Blood donation (BD) is a noble act and mobile applications (apps) can help increase awareness about it. This paper analyzes and assesses the characteristics of free apps for BD as regards features and functionality. A search in Google Play, Apple Apps store, Blackberry App World and Windows Mobile App store was carried out to select 169 free BD apps from the 188 apps identified. The results presented in this paper show that the majority of the apps selected have been developed for the Android operating system. Moreover, most of the apps selected are available to help users search for donors. Few of the apps could not be installed and/or accessed. Of those that could be installed: half of them do not require any kind of authentication; a few of them are available in more than one language; half of them have a geographical restriction; around 60 % of them do not notify the user of BD events and requests; one, which is available for Android and iOS, can connect with a laboratory; around 45 % of them allow users to share information via social networks, and the majority of them do not provide BD recommendations. These results are used as a basis to provide app developers with certain recommendations. There is a need for better BD apps with more features in order to increase the number of volunteer donors.
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