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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 29 Sep 2020

    Health Nerd Retweeted Tomasz Łakomy

    Healthcare apps are a waste of time unless you can keep people using them, and since we have no idea how to do that effectively...https://twitter.com/tlakomy/status/1310467434520940544 …

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    Tomasz Łakomy @tlakomy
    Which tech opinion you got that results in this pic.twitter.com/liGNZ13Ybb
    5:03 AM - 29 Sep 2020
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    • Lucas Seuren George Bai Brittany Keen 💧 Ian "Department of Diseasology" 🍩 Musgrave Alberto Dr. Serenity DellaPorta Monika Dryburgh Adam Proud European from Austria🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 29 Sep 2020

        Anyway, if you're interested in the topic read my new study out in JMIR today https://www.jmir.org/2020/9/e20283/ 

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      1. Gregory Travis‏ @greg_travis 29 Sep 2020
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        This is a painful truth for someone, like me, who spent twenty years developing healthcare apps. That and the fact that you cannot demonstrate any kind of ROI.

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      1. Amir Imani, PharmD‏ @TheAmirImani 29 Sep 2020
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        We used to have students review healthcare apps for specific indications for one of our courses. The fact that the apps they'd review for the same indication would be almost totally different every year says a lot.

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      1. Proud European from Austria 🇪🇺 🇦🇹  🌏‏ @e2dot7182818284 29 Sep 2020
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        Unless ... you have a "captive audience" eg diabetes

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      2. Dr. Serenity DellaPorta‏ @HealthAdvising 29 Sep 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        I knew this would be the case from every conversation I have had with tech people and app developers. When I start to talk of complexity in addressing things like personality and habits they were resistant. How can tech change behavior by simply reducing people to algorithms?

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 29 Sep 2020
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        I think part of the issue is that most apps are heavily commercial and never really go through a rigorous improvement process for fear of harming stock. So everyone adds some gamification elements but never really considers the needs of their target population

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      1. Lucas Seuren‏ @LucasSeuren 30 Sep 2020
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        Evidencing again that humanities and social sciences are critical for society, and that politicians should stop focusing its efforst on STEM exclusively. You cannot develop a succesful app, without considering who will use it, how they'd use it, why they'd use it (or not), etc.

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