Development of a Mobile Application with Health Guidelines for TB Patients Care

Health guidelines inform recommendations for different clinical practices or public health policies. They are a simple way to organize and retrieve relevant information that can impact patient care. Although these documents are easy to use, most are not user-friendly because they are difficult to access. Our work aims to present the developing approach for a decision-making tool based on health guidelines to assist health professionals in caring for patients with tuberculosis. This tool is being developed for use on mobile devices and as a web-based system, which will transform a passive and declarative health guideline document into an interactive tool that will provide data, information, and knowledge. User tests with functional prototypes developed for the Android platform show that this application has the potential to be applied in TB healthcare facilities in the future.