YouCare: A COVID-19 telehealth app

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption across the globe and put pressure on healthcare systems. In order to limit the use of hospital resources, the use of home care and telehealth has been very important to minimize direct human intervention in monitoring patients. The purpose of this work is to present YouCare a multiplatform application that allows the collection of medical data on the health status of the user in order to allow physicians to efficiently monitor the status of the patient. As an important feature, it includes functions to monitor the general situation through statistics and interactions with the other users of the application. This might make the isolation period less stressful while exchanging current COVID experiences. The use of the application has been experimented with a usability test, obtaining positive feedback from the users. We also report other similar applications that have been developed and used in different parts of the world. © DMSVIVA 2021.All right reserved.